Police veteran Michelle Woodfork won the sheriff’s race, at a time when federal consent decrees barring ICE collaboration and ...

The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a ...

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has ramped up sweeps of homeless encampments in his first term. In his reelection bid, he faces a ...

Camille Squires is a story editor at Bolts with experience covering city-level government and politics. Her reporting has appeared in Quartz, NewYork Magazine, City Monitor, and Mother Jones.

The water system that provides for the entire Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota has been contaminated with dangerous levels of manganese that have made the water undrinkable since May. For Lonna ...

Two major elections are taking place this week, within days of one another. The United Kingdom votes on Thursday to elect its members of parliament for the first time since 2019. France then heads to ...

When Australia holds its federal elections on Saturday, it’ll do so with the requirement that all eligible citizens head to the polls and vote. If they don’t, the Australian Electoral Commission will ...

Lorelei Cloud was born in 1967, three years before Native Americans living on tribal lands in Colorado were guaranteed the right to vote. Even once she turned 18, and for many years thereafter, she ...

Seattle is poised to continue its experiment in public campaign financing. Voters on Tuesday renewed the city’s democracy vouchers program, which provides each adult Seattle resident with four $25 ...

In the nearly three decades Barry Jones spent on Arizona’s death row, he often contemplated how he would die. A series of failed appeals to prove his innocence had culminated with the U.S. Supreme ...

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