Making sure elections in Washington are safe and secure — that's Secretary of State Steve Hobbs' job. But with major social media platforms ending fact-checking measures, his office is now facing new ...

In November, Washington State voters defeated a ballot measure that would have significantly undermined the nation’s first social insurance program for long-term care by a surprisingly comfortable 55 ...

The North Carolina Supreme Court dismissed on Wednesday a request by the trailing candidate in an extremely close race for a seat on this same court to rule now on whether well over 60,000 ballots ...

A case involving an initiative seeking to overturn a voter-approved child care tax has been moved to lower appeals court.

A bill in Olympia would further expand Washington state's automatic voter registration process. Sen. Javier Valdez, D-Seattle ...

Two appointed senators, with the significant failure rate of those appointees, might be the helping hand that Senate Democrats need to climb back into power.

The state's high court ruled that the challenge of the validity of more than 60,000 votes must be heard by the Wake County Superior Court first.

A new bill under consideration in the General Assembly would put the measure on the November 2026 ballot for voters to decide whether to increase the minimum wage to $20 an hour. Bill proponents want ...

The U.S. State Department moved swiftly Wednesday to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order doing away with DEI.

Many underrepresented people who built successful government careers credited those laws and their enforcement with expanding the path to prosperity.

The order has already become the subject of five lawsuits by civil rights groups and Democratic attorneys general from 22 states.

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