Under Washington’s constitution, an officeholder elected to a partisan position who vacates their seat — through removal or ...

State law is silent on what happens when an officeholder who doesn't declare a political party leaves their position.

When Maine voters head to the polls this year to pick a new governor, they will run into a growing problem in American politics: a lack of fresh, new candidates. While six of the 16 declared ...

Sens. John Fetterman (D-PA) and Dave McCormick (R-PA) exhibited a rare sign of bipartisanship this week as the two tried to counteract the rising political rhetoric. In an interview with Washington ...

The way clinicians diagnose mental illnesses could soon change dramatically. A cornerstone manual, known as “psychiatry’s bible,” is being radically overhauled to improve mental health assessments.

The push comes after weeks of freewheeling speeches and international controversy that reflected Trump’s tendency to derail ...

The hearing marks one of the last steps before the initiative becomes settled law or is ruled unconstitutional.

I’d like to make the case that our current obscene levels of inequality are an important but neglected contributing factor to greenhouse gas emissions. Inequality is also holding back efforts to ...

Greg Moriarty needs to reconsider the defence policies that have relied on a rock-solid relationship with a nation that no ...

In all-party primaries, sometimes known as top-two primaries, all candidates are on one ballot, regardless of political affiliation. Voters can vote for any candidate on the ballot, and the two ...

Over the last several years, I have become increasingly sure that until there are some foundational changes in the way ...

A local Democratic group in Kitsap County has filed an ethics complaint against Washington state Rep. Tarra Simmons. The complaint, filed on January 12, questions a donation Simmons made to ...