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A Stevens County commissioner who is running for re-election is also suing the county and the former prosecutor. He faces two challengers in the Aug. 6 primary election.

As Americans grow increasingly concerned with the economy and their economic position, candidates hoping to represent Eastern Washington in Congress are making their case to voters that their party and policies will help their constituents get ahead.

Most levies that pass increase the amount of money residents have to pay, but the proposed levy increase in Spokane County Fire District 13 might do the opposite, according to the fire chief.

SEATTLE — A few hours before showtime, Krist Novoselić folds his long frame into a plush couch in Belltown Yacht Club’s dark green room. The sweltering, mid-July club date was just another rock show for the Nirvana bassist. Novoselić and an assembled-on-the-fly band were playing an unusual “political convention.”

A coalition aiming to end the Idaho Republican Party’s closed primary system and implement ranked choice voting faces another hurdle for its November ballot initiative: a lawsuit from Attorney General Raúl Labrador. Labrador petitioned the Idaho Supreme Court on Wednesday to throw out the measure that earlier this month secured enough signatures to qualify for the Nov. 5 general election. The ...

WASHINGTON – In a speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel forcefully defended his nation’s war against Hamas in response to the Palestinian armed group’s attack last year in which it killed nearly 1,200 people and took hundreds of hostages.

Spokane voters will be asked this November whether they want to pay a permanent 0.1% extra sales tax within city limits, after the Spokane City Council voted Monday to place the question on the November election ballot.

The Spokane City Council on Monday declined to take a position on whether the city should commit to enforcing a voter-approved law banning camping in much of the city.

WASHINGTON – In the hours after President Joe Biden on Sunday announced he would end his re-election bid, elected Democrats swiftly coalesced around his vice president. By Monday afternoon, nearly all Washington Democrats holding federal or statewide office had endorsed Kamala Harris as their party’s nominee for president.

Spokane County nationally recognized as a 2024 NACo (National Association of Counties) award winner for "Teen Text Line."

Prominent Democrats in Washington took to social media Sunday to praise President Joe Biden and his decision to withdraw from the presidential race, and some of them backed his endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris to be the party’s presidential nominee.

There’s good reason Vice President Kamala Harris has emerged as the most likely replacement as the Democratic nominee for president, experts said Sunday.

Local Democrats on Sunday praised President Joe Biden’s decision to drop his re-election bid and pledged to unite behind the eventual party nominee.

West Plains resident Craig Volosing stood up in a June public meeting to allege County Commissioner Al French and Spokane International Airport engaged in “absolute silence” on water contamination first discovered in 2017.

Ballots dropped Friday for the Aug. 6 state primary elections. This year marks the first incumbent-free contest for governor since Jay Inslee was elected in 2012, barely beating out his Republican opponent Rob McKenna by a 3% margin of the vote.

Cheney’s EMS tax, set to expire at the end of the year, is up for renewal on the Aug. 6 ballot.