Election

Dan Ryan, the former head of the education nonprofit All Hands Raised, has won the special election race for Portland City Council against former Multnomah County Commissioner Loretta Smith.

The Supreme Court granted an emergency stay on adding the measure to the fall ballot. The stay was requested by Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum.

The election will determine the winner in the runoff between Loretta Smith and Dan Ryan to fill former Portland Commissioner Nick Fish's seat on the City Council.

Joe Biden’s presidential nominating convention will highlight the U.S. political spectrum from the left flank of New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to the Republican old guard of former Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

In Washington's Columbia Basin, the Democratic challenger for the state's 13th Legislative District House seat has focused his message on farmworker safety and called for a fruit boycott. It’s quite a move in a district where the economy is dominated by agriculture.

A measure to fund preschool expansion in Multnomah County heads to voters this November.

The election will determine the winner in the runoff to fill late Portland Commissioner Nick Fish's seat on the City Council.

Democratic incumbent Gov. Jay Inslee and Republican challenger Loren Culp advanced through Washington’s top-two primary to the November ballot.

The Census Bureau has sped up the timetable on its website for crunching 2020 census numbers

Rep. Peter DeFazio, the dean of Oregon's House delegation, has long represented a deeply divided district in the southwest corner of the state. But a Roseburg Republican is giving him a challenge.