If you make the minimum wage — and live in the right place — you could be due for a pay raise this year. In 22 U.S. states, ...

Sports betting proposals have languished for years in the state Legislature amid debates over morality and spending.

Many states automatically raise their minimum wage on Jan. 1 like Arizona, Virginia, Connecticut and Minnesota. In others, ...

Meritus Health, Washington County’s only integrated health system and one of the region’s largest employers, took the next ...

In California, 29 cities set new wage floors, including $17 per hour in Oakland, while seven towns in Washington raised their ...

Other states that have increased their requirements include Alaska, California, Florida, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, ...

Over 9.2 million minimum-wage workers will have higher paychecks this year as 21 states raised their wage floors to adjust for inflation, ballot measures, and legislation.

While Stewart has a master’s degree from UW, she doesn’t work with college students in a lecture hall or lab. She’s a head ...

A business owner in West Seattle lamented that the closure of her business due to the rising minimum wage means the loss of a ...

Since 2009, when the minimum wage was last raised, prices have increased around 40%. High costs are top of mind and Johnson ...

Restaurants and coffee shops, which often operate on thin profit margins, are struggling to absorb the costs of the $20.76 ...

Laws hiking taxes and adding regulations are set to take effect in states across the country in the New Year, from New York to California and the District of Columbia to Colorado.