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Former U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert has announced a bid for governor, becoming the most prominent Republican seeking to replace Gov. Jay Inslee in the first open governor’s race in more than a decade. In his first interview since filing campaign paperwork to run for governor last week, Reichert, 72, told KING 5 he is ready to return to public service after being frustrated with what he sees as

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) announced that she will nominate J. Cody Hilland as the next justice for the state Supreme Court, adding that his appointment would give the court a conservative majority for the first time ever. “I am pleased to announce that I have selected another former prosecutor and a U.S. Attorney Cody Hyland for this role,” she announced Monday at the Arkansas

Kansas taxpayers paid more to tax collectors than expected over the past 12 months, and politicians are eyeing tax cuts next year after failing to agree on how to provide tax relief this year. Taxpayers paid roughly $10.2 billion in taxes to Kansas state government in the past fiscal year, with tax receipts to the State General Fund beating original projections by $874 million, according to

At least seven cars from a freight train tumbled into the Yellowstone River in Montana on Saturday after a derailment and a bridge collapse, causing asphalt and molten sulfur cargo to spill into the water, the authorities said. Officials were investigating whether the derailment or the bridge collapse happened first, as well as how much of the cargo had spread into the river. What led up to