Heading into the Aug. 2 primary, Murray faces 17 challengers, but early campaign contributions and party support point to Tiffany Smiley as her likely opponent in November.

Ballots have to be postmarked by Aug. 2 or placed in a county drop box by 8 p.m. on election day in order to count. 

There will be a new sheriff in town come January, and it will be a Republican with at least two decades of experience in the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.

The candidates include a county auditor, current and former state legislators, a data scientist, a banker and a business owner.

Soaring land values and higher property taxes have caused Newman Lake Fire and Rescue Chief Stan Cooke to rethink his agency’s request for more money.

When Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell ran for re-election the first time, he drew no challengers.

CHICAGO — In the final weekend before Tuesday’s primary election, the disparity in campaigning between Republicans running for governor and the Democratic incumbent they hope to replace foreshadows a fall general election campaign in which culture wars will likely take center stage. On Sunday, first-term Gov. J.B. Pritzker and other Democrats seeking statewide office joined in the celebration ...

Two former and one current Spokane City Council member are vying for Spokane County Commission District 2, which covers east Spokane.  

Republicans Suzanne Schmidt and MJ Bolt and Democrat Ted Cummings are running this year in the 4th District. They will face off in the Aug. 2 primary where the top two will move on to the November general election.

The convening of the electoral college on Dec. 14, 2020, was supposed to mark the end of the wild, extended presidential election that year. But when the day arrived, a strange thing happened. In seven swing states won by Joe Biden, when the Democrat's electors assembled to formally elect him president, Trump supporters showed up, too, ready to declare that their man had actually won.

Natasha Hill, a 39-year-old local attorney and Hillyard native, and Ann Marie Danimus, a 51-year-old marketing professional with ties to the region's rural reaches, have both filed as Democrats to unseat McMorris Rodgers, 53, who's seeking a 10th term in Washington D.C. Sean Clynch, a 60-year-old substitute teacher and Army veteran, rounds out the primary ballot as a Republican.

The outlook in Spokane mirrors that seen in urban areas across the nation, with soaring prices at the pump, rising rates of crime and a greater number of people seeking shelter on the streets. Those issues, combined with the usual disadvantage the political party in power experiences in midterm elections, signify an uphill battle for Democrats, political observers say, though that's complicated in local races where Republicans dominate elected office. 

Ryan Kelley, a Republican running for governor in Michigan who was at the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack in 2021, was arrested at his home in Allendale, Michigan, on Thursday morning, according to Mara R. Schneider, a special agent with the FBI.

Primaries in multiple states on Tuesday will set matchups for the fall and could end the careers of some incumbents.

A review of about 20,000 ballots in a post-election audit of randomly selected precincts in eight randomly selected counties found only six variations from initial results, state officials said Wednesday.

Donald Trump opened May by lifting a trailing Senate candidate in Ohio to the Republican nomination, seemingly cementing the former president's kingmaker status before another possible White House run. He's ending the month, however, stinging from a string of defeats that suggests a diminishing stature.