Politics

A year after calls for his resignation, longtime Washington state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has announced that he will not seek reelection.

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson has launched an exploratory campaign for governor, a day after incumbent Jay Inslee announced he won't run again.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says he will not seek a fourth term in office. The 72-year-old Democrat made the announcement Monday.

Though no one has officially announced their candidacy for the 2024 gubernatorial race, possible candidate Hilary Franz is taking aim at the big campaign war chest amassed by another potential candidate: Bob Ferguson.

Proponents say it would build five centers around King County that would act as emergency rooms for mental help and recovery treatment. Voters will decide whether to impose a property tax to fund it in a special election on April 25.

Idaho’s Republican governor has signed a bill criminalizing gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth starting next year. That makes Idaho one of at least 13 states to enact a law restricting or banning gender-affirming care for minors.

During the Roaring Twenties — the Jazz Age — the second era of the Ku Klux Klan reached new heights, far more widespread than the first following the Civil War. How millions of people in the U.S. came to embrace the white supremacist group is the subject of Seattle author Timothy Egan’s new book “A Fever in the Heartland.”

Militia groups, Christian nationalists, anti-vaccine activists and other conspiracy theorists in the Pacific Northwest have all started working together and are forging new connections with the formal political class.

A bill advancing through the Washington state legislature would require mailers and TV ads — ones that tell you to call your lawmakers about legislation — to list their major donors on the ad.

ESG is called “woke capitalism” by the right and “greenwashing” by the left. But to most investors, it’s just common sense.