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Before prices were frozen in the spring, tuition for a year of undergraduate education at the University of Washington had grown at five times the rate of inflation over the last decade — an increase of 150 percent.

That increase is largely due to the state’s sharp…

Washington's top economic forecaster Steve Lerch says the recovering economy and tax changes approved by the Legislature are expected to generate $368 million more revenue for state operations through mid-2015 than was expected in June when lawmakers finished their two-year budget.

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President Obama deplored the rising costs of college on Thursday as he tried to shame universities into holding down prices. He held out the prospect of more federal student aid if they did.

"It's not the years ... it's the mileage," as Indiana Jones uttered in "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

In recent years, the artificial playing surface at Bellingham's Civic Stadium has looked like a graying, beat-up version of its former self, sending anyone…

For the first time in nearly 30 years, most students at Western Washington University won't see their tuition go up when the next school year begins.

The ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Board of Trustees approved a more than $145 million operating budget for the school that included no tuition increases for…

As the Washington legislative session wrapped up, our legislators finally took at least one important step in the right direction. Or rather, they stopped going in the wrong direction.

It's about time. Tuition and fees at the University of Washington are $13,…

State employees will see few major gains — but also few pains — as a result of the 153-day legislative session that ended June 29.

Pay for most Washington state government employees snapped back to 2011 levels on July 1 as a two-year, 3 percent cut in compensation and hours worked was…