RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina officials charged with leading recovery efforts in western North Carolina after Hurricane ...

South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden did not deviate greatly from Noem's executive agenda, but there are early differences between ...

Beginning Feb. 3, the first session of the 60th Oklahoma Legislature begins, and it begins with a host of new leaders.

Chief Justice Jeffrey Funke's first "state of the Judiciary" lauds probation services and calls for additional state funds.

Newt Gingrich vowed to apply the country’s laws to Congress. Now early backers are looking back on the Congressional ...

Top Senate Republicans want to pass their party’s wide-ranging agenda with two different acts by using a legislative process ...

Congress has the power to appropriate federal dollars, and the executive branch’s job is to spend it as lawmakers direct. But ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – Splitting up the longstanding joint legislative committees that vet bills into separate House and Senate panels is one of the major reforms the House’s lead negotiator on a new rules ...

After City Council overrode Mayor Deegan veto of Meridian Waste legislation, General Counsel strikes down legislation as ...

Maine’s legislature operates on a biennial schedule, with each legislative session lasting two years, beginning on an ...

California was one of 15 Democratic state government trifectas at the start of 2025 legislative sessions. A state government trifecta occurs when one political party holds the governor's office, a ...