Elections 2016

Correcting what it considers a misreading of its 2015 draft report on hydraulic fracking, the EPA has released a final report it says “provides scientific evidence that hydraulic fracturing activities can impact drinking water resources in the U...

Electors are gathering Monday in every state to formally elect Donald Trump president even as anti-Trump forces try one last time to deny him the White House. Protests are planned Monday in state capitals, but they're unlikely to persuade the Electoral College to dump Trump...

Monday is the day the Electoral College will do its thing and cast sufficient votes to make Donald Trump the next president of the United States.  When that happens it won’t be because a flurry of activity wasn’t launched to prevent it from happening...

President-Elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, General James “Bulldog” Mattis is a Washington state native and now Mr. Trump seems poised to pick another Washingtonian for his cabinet.  The online news site The Hill is reporting that Rep...

4th District Congressman Dan Newhouse is fine with the short term appropriations act passed by the house today. ( H.R. 2028, the Further Continuing and Security Assistance Appropriations Act, 2017)  If passed by the Senate and signed by the President the measure would fund the federal government through April, 2017...

President-elect Donald Trump continues to assemble his cabinet and at the same time he makes his way throughout the rust belt to say thanks to the people who defied conventional wisdom to vote for him.  Supporters are optimistic and encouraged by his message to dream big...

Yes. He really did just say that.

President Obama is expected to deliver an address Wednesday afternoon in the wake of Donald Trump winning the presidential election.

Donald Trump will be the 45th president of the United States, pulling off what many consider to be a stunning upset.

Yakima County Auditor Charles Ross says more than 70 percent of county voters turned out for the presidential election on Tuesday. And that 70 percent number is expected to grow when more ballots are counted today. Ross tells KIT News, "We're going to process more ballots in this election than the county ever has because we have a larger data base...