Petition for President Donald Trump to stop Initiative 1639 runs out of time.

A task force to study possible removal of the Snake River dams could generate outsized controversy in Gov. Jay Inslee’s budget.

Gov. Jay Inslee will ask the Legislature for an extra $9.7 billion in spending in the state’s main budget over the next two years to pay for improvements to public schools and the mental health system, higher teacher and state worker salaries and environmental protections that would help save threatened salmon and Orcas.

Task force on legislative public records send off its recommendations. The question remains whether the 2019 Legislature use them as a springboard to more transparency.

Former Valley legislator Lynn Schindler died this week.

Despite near-record turnout for the midterm, tens of thousands of Spokane County voters didn’t vote and that has implications for future elections.

Frank Chopp, the state’s longest-serving speaker, talked to reporters about the upcoming session and beyond.

Washington nearly set records for turnout and the number of ballots cast in a statewide election.

Medical marijuana could be covered under some government disability programs, an attorney general’s opinion says, but whether that would jeopardize federal funding for local programs isn’t clear.

House Speaker Frank Chopp will give up post after the 2019 session.

It’s been a sea-to-shining-sea year for our peripatetic governor.

Some more numbers to consider from the recent midterm elections.

Mark Schoesler named Senate minority leader.

Spokane gun dealer, others challenge Initiative 1639 in federal court.

The City Council of Republic, Washington is mulling legislation to countermand from state and national laws that limit Second Amendment gun rights, including the recently passed Initiative 1639.

Spokane Democrat Andy Billig was named majority leader of the state Senate Monday as members of the caucus gathered to select new leaders for the 2019 session.

Starting next year,

With most counting finished for the 2018 election and very few races still in doubt, it seems appropriate to pass out the awards for the highlights and lowlifes of the late, great mid-terms.