Twelve-term Congressman, top Democrat on the House infrastructure committee, a leader in international relations and brewmaster? Raise a glass to U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Arlington, a newfound Congressional brewing champion.
SPOKANE — A boisterous audience gathered Wednesday night in Spokane’s Fox Theater and ignored a debate moderator’s repeated direction to hold its cheers as Republican Dave Reichert and Democrat Bob Ferguson argued who should be the next Washington governor.
Three years ago, Washington politicians passed arguably the most ambitious climate law in the state’s history, putting a price on greenhouse gas emissions with the intention of putting the state on a path to a cleaner economy.
Voters in and around Spokane Valley are about to elect a new state senator for the first time in more than a decade, and the choice has come down to a pair of veterans from each of the major political parties.
Washington’s Paid Family and Medical Leave program keeps growing, but its staff and resources do not, leaving applicants with delays for benefits and long waits for customer service.
Pasco Mayor Pete Serrano and former U.S. Attorney for Western Washington Nick Brown are facing off in the race to become Washington attorney general, a post that supervises 800 state-employed attorneys and shapes the state’s legal policy.
WASHINGTON – It’s not easy to get elected to statewide office as a Republican in Washington state. When voters don’t know your name, it’s just about impossible.
A former sheriff and a career lawyer are both vying to be Washington’s next governor in November’s election, fighting for the post overseeing a $70 billion budget and more than 8 million state residents.
Democrat Marcus Riccelli was running unopposed to fill the Senate seat vacated by the retirement of Andy Billig on the August primary ballot, but a last-minute successful write-in campaign means he will now face Republican Jim Wilson in November.
Nearly 700,000 Washington households received a $200 credit on their electricity bills in recent weeks – one of the state’s most visible investments to date under a climate law that is now in the hands of voters.
Former president Donald Trump highlighted Seattle in Tuesday’s debate against challenger Vice President Kamala Harris in an attempt to present the Biden administration as weak on crime.
The hourlong debate, which took place immediately following the presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, marked a fleeting opportunity for the state’s nearly 5 million voters to see their candidates discuss policies in the same room.
Republican Dan Matthews wants smaller government and lesss powerful unions. Democratic incumbent Denny Heck wants to build state housing investment and create more homes.
Washington voters are being asked to settle – possibly once and for all – one of the most contentious and contested fiscal questions of the last decade: Whether the state can levy a capital gains tax on some of its wealthiest residents.#collection:home-promos#collection:news#collection:local-government#collection:washington-government
With only six weeks before voting begins in Washington’s November election, state Republican Party Chair Jim Walsh acknowledged that time is tight for his party’s legal challenge against recount results in the state lands commissioner primary.
In Washington’s first statewide ballot recount in a primary election since 1960, Democrat Dave Upthegrove just barely edged out Republican Sue Kuehl Pederson to secure a spot on the November ballot in the race for the state office that oversees millions of acres of public lands.King County Councilmember Upthegrove will join Republican and former U.S. Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler on the general election ballot this fall.
The longtime state lawmaker reportedly backed his car into another vehicle while trying to leave the Ritzville Rodeo Saturday night. Police reported his blood-alcohol content was .14, nearly twice the legal maximum of .08.
