Q1: If elected, how do you plan to work to up voter registration numbers within the county? Q2: How do you plan to improve overall on time tax payments? A1: I think that early education of our young ...

Gail McIntire said she just wanted to do the right thing by calling her county assessor’s office and asking to be taken off the list of people over age 65 eligible for a senior property-tax break.

Neck-and-neck might be the best description of the race for the office of Jefferson County tax assessor-collector. As of 10:45 p.m. with 100 percent of precincts reporting, Republican incumbent J.

Voters will also have a chance to weigh in on several other national, state and local races on the ballot this year. Early voting in Jefferson County for the general election is open from Oct. 21 to ...

PORT TOWNSEND — A state-required shoreline master program update — which increases residential building setbacks from marine waterways and river and stream buffers — will affect all landowners in the ...

Jefferson County's tax assessor filed a lawsuit against the county this afternoon seeking to block planned cutbacks in his office during a financial meltdown in county government that has led to ...

Jefferson County Assessor Yvonne Hawkins Humphrey has announced she is seeking another term in the 2018 Democratic Party primary. Humphrey has been county assessor since 2011 and “remains steadfast in ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson County Assessor Jack Westerman III plans to retire Jan. 1, one year shy of the end of his ninth term. Westerman presented a brief letter of resignation to the county ...

GOLDEN — One of the candidates seeking to oversee Jefferson County’s property tax system as its next assessor owes thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes at both the federal and state level, according ...

Cuts to his office mandated by the Jefferson County Commission have made it impossible for the county's tax assessor to carry out his legally required duties, he testified in court today. Tax Assessor ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Texas — Both candidates running for Jefferson County Tax Assessor-Collector are wanting your vote and 12News spoke to both of them. Both candidates tell 12News they're comfortable ...