Voters will be asked this August whether to renew a 0.2% sales tax funding the Spokane Transit Authority for another 20 years, following an at-times contentious board vote Wednesday.
There’s an old idiom East Valley Superintendent Brian Talbott finds himself repeating as his school district seeks property tax collections to replace two over-50-year-old schools.
Eyeing a leaky roof, a cracked track, noncompliant cameras and a busted boiler, Nine Mile Falls School District is asking voters to weigh in on a property tax levy.
OLYMPIA – Although candidates cannot formally file with the secretary of state’s office until the first week of May, the race to represent Spokane in the state Capitol already is underway.
A possible tax for a new jail and to boost public safety may derail plans to ask voters this summer to renew the sales tax that pays for Spokane’s bus system.
DEBRECEN, Hungary — Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán made competing final pitches to voters on Saturday, a day before the country heads to the polls in what is seen as its most critical election since the transition to democracy. Magyar told supporters in the eastern city of Debrecen that Orbán, who trails in the polls, would be ejected from office. He ...
The Supreme Court on Monday appeared poised to reject Mississippi's mail-in ballot law, a decision that could upend mail-in voting throughout the country.
Attorney General Ken Paxton vowed to press forward with his GOP challenge to incumbent Sen. John Cornyn despite President Donald Trump’s demand that the candidates wrap up the fight.
Rep. Ryan Zinke, the Montana Republican who served as Interior secretary during the first Trump administration, is retiring after two stints in the House.
One Republican candidate to succeed Sen. Mitch McConnell introduced himself with an ad that shows a cardboard cutout of the longtime Senate majority leader in the trash. Allies for a rival hit back with ads that noted the first candidate gave McConnell money.
Big numbers and high stakes are riding on the ballot in November: 435 House seats, 35 Senate seats, 39 governorships − and the country's course for the final two years of President Donald Trump's term.
