Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has announced an agreement on a state budget framework with the state’s Democratic leadership. The ...

Minnie Fisher Cunningham helped get women in Texas the right to vote two years before the 19th Amendment was ratified.

As Oklahomans assessed the devastation from wildfires that whipped across the state, damaging or destroying hundreds of homes ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas lawmaker who helped pioneer the state's restrictive abortion laws introduced a bill on Friday to clarify medical exceptions allowed under the law, representing a pivot ...

Jay Inslee’s use of emergency powers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Emergency powers bill WA governor helped keep alive is on cusp of failure Ferguson released his statement hours after the Standard ...

The announcement from Ferguson further distances him from the approach of his predecessor, fellow Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee, who broadly exercised emergency powers as governor for more than two ...

Bob Ferguson had only been Washington’s governor a few minutes when he said he could accept “reasonable limits” on the powers he could exercise in statewide emergencies. A few weeks later ...

Both bills have the governor’s support. In a statement Friday, Ferguson said “legislators are working hard, and I am optimistic about our progress,” but didn’t indicate a favored proposal.

The governor presented $4 billion in new reductions on Thursday, Feb. 27 and said he supports another $3 billion in savings former Gov. Jay Inslee proposed in December. This scrub is Ferguson’s ...