Jim Camden

Rep. Matt Shea will push for more openness in legislative records despite his criticism of the news media, House GOP leader says.

Does better voter turnout depend on postage-paid ballots, or competitive races?

A gun-control initiative should not go on the November ballot because the petitions that some 378,000 voters signed were not readable, a Thurston County Superior Court judge said.

Ferry County officials left ballots in drop boxes in four outlying communities for more than a week after the election.

In towns along Washington’s Pacific Coast, there are tsunami zones with sirens to warn of an approaching wave and marked routes to take to higher ground. Tuesday’s election results are not proof of a blue tsunami about to wash over the electorate, but the siren is blowing.

Three-term Sen. Maria Cantwell is headed for a general election showdown against former GOP State Chairwoman Susan Hutchison after the two finished far ahead of the field in Tuesday’s Washington state primary. At a campaign gathering in Redmond with U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene and State Sen. Manka Dhingra, Cantwell thanked voters and campaign workers and launched into a travelogue of cities around the state where she’d been to campaign in the past week.

The primary ballot is the gateway to the general election for candidates seeking federal, state and local offices, but the results are always open to interpretation. Ballots have to be postmarked today or deposited in drop boxes by 8 p.m.

Answers to frequent excuses for not voting in the primary.

Eastern Washington voters in survey have concerns about Trump administration “zero tolerance policy” that separates immigrant families arrested for improperly crossing the border.

Two Spokane-area lawmakers, including one who’s a critic of the news media, were named to a task force to discuss how the Legislature should be more open with its records.

Gov. Jay Inslee declared a state of emergency Tuesday because of wildfires in Eastern Washington and called out National Guard troops to help fight the fires.

For all the talk about a blue wave of voters that might wash over the 2018 elections, it seems appropriate to mention that turnout in this year’s primary is lagging behind where it was in 2014, the last midterm.

Initiative 1639, a gun control measure, has enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot, but faces a new lawsuit.

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and the state Republican Party are stepping up attacks on Democratic challenger Lisa Brown with a mailer that suggests the former state legislator is soft on sexual predators and a newspaper ad that she claims credit where it’s not due.

U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes – one of President Donald Trump’s strongest supporters in Congress and a sometime lightning rod for criticism for the House investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election – will help Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers raise campaign money Monday in Spokane.

Former Seattle Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen sometimes found himself at the center of a storm of controversy over the way he practiced his Catholic faith, but never let that dim his view the need for social justice or keep him from talking to his critics, longtime friends said.

Former Seattle Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen sometimes found himself at the center of a storm of controversy over the way he practiced his Catholic faith, but never let that dim his view the need for social justice or keep him from talking to his critics, longtime friends said.

Some groups spend big to get signatures for ballot initiatives.

Rathdrum stove manufacturer gets an invitation to the White House’s Made In America Product Showcase.

Washington sues two charities in national crackdown on groups that falsely claim to help veterans.

Northwest newspaper organizations fight tariffs levied to help Longview paper mill.