Scott Greenstone

Clallam County in Washington is the only county in the entire nation where voters have chosen the same candidate as the electoral college for 40 years — in every presidential race since 1980.

A fter months of hearing from the candidates and the positions for and against initiatives, Washington state voters get to have their say in the November General Election. KUOW spoke with six Republicans, six Democrats, and six Independent voters from Bellingham down to Burien, and Bremerton across to Bellevue. We asked each of them the same questions to learn who they are, what matters to them, and how they have decided who and what to vote for.

While the rest of the country moved towards the right this election, Washington Democrats saw the first sweep of statewide offices since the 1960s.

A t West Berlin’s chess championship in 1984, Danish master Klaus Berg faced off against a nerdy-looking teen from Seattle called Bobby Ferguson.

John Arthur Wilson, King County Assessor, and Claudia Balducci, King County Councilmember.

It’s everyone’s favorite time of the year… budget season. Washington state legislators are facing a deficit of over $10 billion dollars for the 2025-2027 budget.

Puget Sound Energy expects to fully restore power to "most if not all” customers by Tuesday, a spokesperson told KUOW.

County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay has represented South Seattle and South King County since 2019.

Big names bowing out of Seattle-area politics

Some Washington state lawmakers want to end the sale of flavored tobacco and nicotine products, saying they stand to hook kids on products such as vapes and menthol cigarettes for life.