Washington state government

Washington state government

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  Wash. state releases draft rules for legal pot

  Officials in Washington state took their first stab at setting rules for the state's new marijuana industry Thursday, nearly eight months after voters ... 

• Wash. officials say state courts office was hacked

  The Washington state Administrative Office of the Courts was hacked sometime between last fall and February, and up to 160,000 Social Security numbers ... 

• Washington AG slaps T-Mobile USA for new plans

  Washington state's chief prosecutor says there's a catch to T-Mobile's new cellphone plans, which replace the traditional two-year service contract ... 

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  Wash. bar owner allowing pot use faces crackdown

  Jeff Call knew he was pushing the envelope when he started letting people use marijuana at his rum-and-pizza joint in Tacoma. But he didn't quite know ... 

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  For Wash. government bean-counter, a pot education

  Mike Steenhout knows spreadsheets, statistics and bean-counting. He has worked as a budget assistant to the governor, managed local operations for the ... 

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  Feds look to ship Wash. radioactive waste to NM

  Removing radioactive waste from underground tanks at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site has proven to be technologically vexing for years, ... 

• Biden: Washington frozen by partisanship

  Vice President Joe Biden says Washington is frozen by intense partisanship — but he's hoping it's just temporary. Biden told governors gathered at the ... 

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  Cruz's tactics boil Washington, but impress Texas

  Ted Cruz glanced at his black cowboy boots, beneath a silver Texas belt buckle, waiting for the admirers to stop clapping. His arrival had turned a ... 

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  6 tanks at Hanford nuclear site in Wash. leaking

  Six underground tanks that hold a brew of radioactive and toxic waste at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site are leaking, federal and state ... 

• New generation of governors seeking the limelight

  For governors with national ambitions, this is pad — and promote — your record time. Republicans Bobby Jindal of Louisiana is trying to ditch his ... 

• Democratic governors: Cuts to hurt state economies

  Democratic governors meeting with President Barack Obama say their state economies will be hurt by automatic, across-the-board federal government ... 

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  Wash. vows to try to keep weed in state - but how?

  So far, no one is suggesting checkpoints or fences to keep Washington state's legal pot within its borders. But Gov. Jay Inslee insists there are ways ...