The board for the state health exchange on Thursday once again delayed a vote on approval of 31 plans proposed to be part of the system.

The board for Montana's health exchange delayed a vote Wednesday on approval of 31 plans proposed to be part of the system while some companies that were rejected by the insurance commission appeal their exclusion.

Washington state's insurance commissioner on Thursday announced that he's approved 31 plans that will be part of the state's new health exchange.

Six years ago, Washington state lawmakers approved a program giving parents five weeks of paid time off to be with a new child. But the question of how to pay for the program was never answered, and now some lawmakers are looking to remove it from the books, while the...

Washington state's long-term unemployment benefits will decrease by 26 weeks after April 21, state officials announced Tuesday.

Revenue, reform and, of course, cuts. Those are the options Washington state lawmakers will weigh this month as they try to balance a budget deficit projected to be about a billion dollars through the middle of 2013.