If Strickland can stay above the 50% plus one threshold, he’ll win the seat outright without needing to go to an April runoff ...

OLYMPIA, Wash.–Washington is one of five states that does not list clergy members as mandatory reporters of child abuse or ...

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A revamped but still highly controversial proposal to provide paid family and medical leave to New Mexicans is heading to the ...

Idaho House lawmakers introduced a revised version of a bill intended to control Medicaid costs.  After an unusually long ...

In New York and Washington, D.C., bipartisan coalitions advanced legislation to fund and care for those affected by 9/11 after DOGE cuts.

The cost-of-living adjustments were unanimously rejected following a major pay raise for lawmakers and the executive branch ...

Will state employees have to return to the office? What will become of Gov. Andy Beshear’s pardon powers? This legislative ...

Unions and their supporters filled the State Capitol Friday, in a show of opposition to a bill that would establish Montana as a “right-to-work” state.

A Minneapolis man who allegedly expressed admiration for the truck attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people has been ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa became the first U.S. state to remove gender identity protections from its civil rights code on ...

Statehouse reporters Gavin Jackson, Russ McKinney and Maayan Schechter are back at the Capitol reporting what you need to ...