Nine candidates for governor debate at an Augusta event hosted by the Maine Primary Care Association on March 18. Credit: Benjamin Kail / BDN Our political journalists are based in the Maine State House and have deep source networks across the partisan ...

Follow WTOP’s team coverage of the D.C. primary and Election 2026 online, on air at 103.5 FM or on the WTOP News app. D.C.’s June primary election may be the District’s most consequential in decades. And it’s not just the races on the ballot ...

Voters in D.C. this primary season will choose candidates for mayor, delegate to Congress, attorney general and several new Council members in what’s sure to be one of the District’s most consequential local elections in recent history.