student loans

Two borrowers give their initial reactions to the Supreme Court's ruling to strike down the Biden Administration's initial student loan debt relief plan. Nearly 700,000 Washingtonians were eligible for relief.

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson says a major student loan servicer will provide about $45 million in debt relief and restitution to settle the state's lawsuit that alleged it deceived loan seekers and engaged in unfair practices.

Washington lawmakers passed a "student loan bill of rights" earlier this year aimed at helping people with student-loan debt. The law created a new…

Washington state is suing the nation's largest student loan company, joining the federal government and the state of Illinois in alleging unfair and…

This election season, the student debt crisis has finally gotten the attention it deserves. A look at how we got here, who has profited and just a few of the lives affected.

Colleges already list high sticker prices, but those prices still don't reflect the real cost of undergraduate life. And financial aid isn't effectively bridging the gap.

Here are the tips, tools and calculators that can help make sense of all that debt.

Families often pull together to help finance a college education, with parents and grandparents chipping in or co-signing loans. But when a federal student loan isn't paid back, the government withholds money from Social Security recipients.

Congress passed a bill Friday to keep the interest rate on government-backed student loans from doubling. It's a victory for students, but other compromises by Congress could cost them a lot more in the long run.

Congressional leaders say they are close to a deal on two issues with looming deadlines. But if Congress fails to lock down agreements this week, the federal highway program would come to a halt, and student loan interest rates would double.