Voters in a conservative enclave within Washington state will decide whether to shutter the county’s only library after staff refused to remove books on race, LGBTQ and sexual topics that some ...

With a new $280,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant, the Office of Secretary of State Kim Wyman will break fresh ground in its nationally-recognized project of digitizing historic ...

From Washington, D.C. to the very Pacific edge of Washington state, funding cuts and firings have affected numerous programs, services and personnel across the board. The termination of employees in ...

OLMYPIA, Wash. -- Almost 50 people with the Washington State Library network are facing layoffs due to cuts in the state and federally. According to the Washington Secretary of State's Office, 47 ...

With a housing market slowdown choking off a key source of its funding, the Washington State Library is shaving hours and pausing virtual inquiries to librarians. Effective this week, the library in ...

TUMWATER, Wash. — Washington's library system is facing cuts that are triggering layoff notices for dozens of employees, according to state officials. The central library in Tumwater is facing "near ...

Courtney Flatt / Northwest News Network After a rural library district was at risk of being dissolved last year, Washington senators voted 49-0 on a bill to improve the process that could close ...

The Columbia County Library in southeastern Washington stands less than a block off Dayton’s Main Street, in a historic red-brick building that now houses more than 30,000 books. The fate of this ...

It's perhaps no surprise that copies of Dungeons & Dragons are rolling out to libraries across Washington state. The Washington State Library falls under the purview of Secretary of State Steve Hobbs, ...

A book was returned to a Washington state library on Monday, 81 years after it was checked out, KIRO-TV reported. According to a Facebook post by the Timberland Regional Library in the western ...