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One of the two Liberty Lake Council members who voted to ban the book “Gender Queer” from the city’s library is now being challenged for her seat by a member of the library’s board of trustees.

There’s a lot that differentiates candidates for the Central Valley School Board seat representing district 1.

Deer Park voters have a choice between a longtime resident and a more recent arrival in a race for a City Council seat in November.

Known for authoring a controversial proposal to ban critical race theory from Mead’s curriculum, school board member Michael Cannon is running for a second term, saying he’ll defend parental rights. He faces an engineer who hopes to make Mead’s school board less political.

After multiple last-minute court rulings, an attempt to pull the anti-camping measure from the general election ballot ultimately failed. 

Arne Woodard, 70, hopes to beat out 37-year-old Al Merkel and secure a fourth and final term in office. 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is doubling down on his promise to use lethal force against fentanyl traffickers attempting to cross the U.S. southern border if elected president, telling voters at the first GOP presidential debate last week that he would “use all available powers as commander-in-chief” to suppress the epidemic. But homeland security officials tell McClatchy that an overwhelming majority of fentanyl is being smuggled through the border at legal ports of entry — and not by foreign nationals, but by U.S. citizens.

Dan Dunne, one of the longest serving council members in Liberty Lake history, will try to fend off retired engineer Larry Marshall. 

Both candidates had decades-long careers with the Spokane Valley Fire Department. 

WASHINGTON — Crystal Mason was on supervised release for a federal tax fraud conviction when she went to her polling place in Tarrant County to vote in the 2016 presidential election. She wasn’t on the list of registered voters, so a poll worker told her to cast a provisional ballot.

MIAMI -- Insurgent Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie visited the Miami area Friday, pitching himself not only as a better option than former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, but also as an alternative to their brand of politics. Speaking to voters in DeSantis’ and Trump’s backyard, Christie criticized the two leading GOP candidates’ policies as antithetical ...

Stuart Delery, the White House counsel who has helped usher in some of President Joe Biden’s most important policies while defending him against Republican attacks, announced Thursday that he plans to step down as the West Wing shapes its staff for the final 15-month sprint to next year’s election.

 Donald Trump’s top Republican rivals arrive in Atlanta this week at a crucial moment in the race for the White House, bringing their campaigns to a must-win 2024 state days after the former president was charged with engineering a sweeping “criminal enterprise” to reverse his Georgia election defeat.  

After an unlikely landslide win last week in Ohio, pro-abortion activists believe they have a huge advantage with voters in the coming year, particularly in suburban swing areas, and Democrats are planning to run strongly on the issue in 2024 and beyond in hopes it can help them retake control of Congress and keep the White House.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will appear in Dallas for a September 21 fundraiser after recently retooling his campaign for president.

Mike Pence has qualified for the first Republican presidential debate, avoiding the embarrassing scenario of a former vice president failing to make the cut.

Former President Donald Trump attacked the nation’s capital as a “filthy and crime-ridden embarrassment” as the leading Republican candidate in the 2024 race seeks to move his federal trial on conspiracy and obstruction charges to a more politically friendly venue.