Tim Gruver

This story begins in January of 2017, when Grant County farmer Ron Fode was vying for a nod from Ecology to irrigate his fields in lieu of owning the groundwater rights to do so.

At present, the venture is slated to cost around $14.4 billion or about $2.2 billion more than either state (plus Uncle Sam) have budgeted for.

A bill written up this session to fence off your neighborhood from Wall Street begged the expensive question of just how many people live in what they own.

How many homes does private equity own in Washington today? Hard numbers are hard to come by for our neck of the woods, but there’s a wealth of data on the matter at the national level.

Senate Bill 5576 would impose a 6% excise tax on short-term rentals statewide starting in 2026 to pay for local affordable housing programs.

The Washington Legislature’s Democratic caucuses may have tilted further left this fall, but the House GOP minority added members from the party’s rightmost edge. This happened despite caucus leaders spending heavily to prevent it.

Attorney General Bob Ferguson has the distinction of sitting on both the biggest war chest in the race—which stands at $7.2 million—and the biggest small-dollar haul.

The race for the 6th CD is drawing tons of cash and every green thumbs-up could decide who the 6th sends to the other Washington.

Environmentalists are knocking on wood that Upthegrove clears the field on the left before an expensive head-to-head with former Republican U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler this November.

It normally takes weeks, not minutes for a bill to blast out of its home chamber, but that’s exactly what happened on Monday when the curtain rose in Olympia. Before...