They'd tap the rainy day fund, cut child care and commit $1 billion to legal payouts. Republicans say the state is overspending on track for more fiscal trouble.

Democrats in the Washington Legislature released a budget deal Wednesday balanced with one-time maneuvers, siphoning of rainy day reserves and slashing of child care funding.

From preschool to K-12, education took the biggest hit after Washington lawmakers unveiled a budget agreement on Wednesday with the largest cuts concentrated in early learning and ...

The rising demand for rent now, pay later underscores America’s deepening affordability problem after years of stagnant wages and higher prices. Many families already face a cash crunch – a situation ...

House and Senate budget writers have unveiled a supplemental operating budget deal that relies on a hotly debated income tax on millionaires and makes cuts to education and child care.

Legislators will consider supplemental spending plans for approval before the legislative session ends March 12. Democrats in both the Senate and House would use more than $700m from the state's rainy ...

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Idaho's House has approved a bill requiring deeper spending cuts, slashing state agency budgets by 4% amidst tension over fiscal responsibility and transparency.

The House voted 48-22 on Friday to approve deeper spending cuts for this fiscal year, sending a bill to the governor’s desk that will cut most state agencies' budgets by 4%.

A massive 450 mgd desalination plant project is moving forward as Nueces River Authority officials say demand leaves no room for delay.