Voters in 2020 approved shortening the state's official name because of the connotations that come with that last word. There's been an ongoing effort to remove older versions of the seal from the ...

Washington’s outgoing Democratic governor on Tuesday afternoon revealed the painting by Seattle artist Grace Athena Flott. Inslee viewed the portrait for the first time during a ceremony in the State ...

It made its unanimous selection December 12; its final report, all 35 pages, came out on New Year’s Day, describing the new seal with a loon (state bird), wild rice (official grain), Norway pine ...

Cameron Hamilton does not appear to have experience coordinating responses to large-scale disasters, like the wildfires in ...

Hanko will only still be needed for a handful of government procedures requiring official seals registered with local municipalities. Taro Kono, state minister in charge of administrative reform ...

Jay Inslee — and his environmentalist spirit — have been immortalized in an official portrait ... colored folder emblazoned with the state seal. A small red pin graces his lapel.