By Monday evening, Upthegrove had 395,812 votes and Kuehl Pederson had 395,619, a difference of 193 votes – about 0.02% of their total votes. There were an estimated 1,350 votes left to...

The Office of the Insurance Commissioner is a regulatory and consumer advocacy agency. It provides volunteer advocates to help people navigate Medicare; licenses insurance companies and the individual businesses (there are 200,000)...

The cap-and-invest system aims to decrease carbon emissions and finance climate change mitigation measures across the state. Under the program, carbon-emitting corporations – like oil and gas companies and utilities – bid...

But typically, fees in Washington pale compared to those in neighboring states. One analysis of tens of thousands of records requests made through MuckRock, a records assistance website, found that their Idaho requesters...

“I made the determination that I could assist the people of Franklin County in the state Legislature as effectively (if not more so) as I could on the Franklin County Board of...

These figures show that more than $4 billion – or around 80% – of the roughly $5 billion directed to expanding housing and preventing homelessness since 2013 has been packed into the...

Blum turned to programs mostly in states where abortion access — and, by extension, abortion training — is likely to remain protected, like California, Colorado and New Mexico. Arizona has enacted a...

Most of the races are slated to first appear on the Aug. 6 primary ballot, with the top two vote-getters in each contest proceeding to the general election on Nov. 5. Here are...