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House Democrats rolled out a budget plan Monday that closes a $5 billion-plus budget gap by slashing funds for public schools, colleges, hospitals and other pieces of the health-care safety net.

House Democrats on Monday proposed closing a $5.1 billion budget shortfall through cuts, use of reserves and by privatizing the state's wholesale liquor operation.

Highlights released by lawmakers propose cutting $4.4 billion in spending over the next two…

Soon after the University of Washington's acceptance letters for undergraduate admission went out in the mail last month, the rumors started flying at local high schools.

High-school seniors with top test scores didn't get in.

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State budget cuts means it's tougher than ever for Washington residents to get into the University Washington.

University officials say they've had to cut the number of in-state students they admit to the Seattle campus this fall. Meanwhile, they're…

U.S. Representative Rick Larsen says budget cuts could have a negative impact on students.

Larsen said on Wednesday that cutting Pell grants in the federal budget would devastate students of local schools like Western Washington University.

Legislative leaders have given no clear indication of when the House and Senate will roll out their proposed state budgets for the next two years, even as they enter the final weeks of a 105-day session clouded by predictions of a deepening deficit.

The Olympian…

Government funding for the arts is falling on hard times amid the state's multibillion budget shortfall.

Gov. Chris Gregoire proposes eliminating the Washington State Arts Commission and slashing state funding for grants to hundreds of nonprofit arts…

While state workers are taking home less money, the people who used to hold state jobs are being paid more.

Retirees 66 and older who worked for 35 years, for example, saw an extra $790 in their pension checks this year even though most consumer prices have flat-…

Higher education in our state is at a crossroads. In one direction lies a path of necessary innovation, economic vitality and limitless opportunities for a citizenry growing by leaps and bounds. In the other, closed doors and minds, economic decline and mounting despair. Which road is taken will…