The Michigan Legislature will reconvene for the 2026 session in January. A historically slow legislative year ended with a ...

The Hawaiʻi State Senate announced its new leadership and committee assignments ahead of the 33rd Legislature that opens on ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas constitution limits its Legislature to a 140-day regular session every other year, and the final three weeks of a session include several deadlines, setting a rapid and ...

This story was produced as part of the Colorado Capitol News Alliance. It first appeared at coloradosun.com. It’s one state budget crisis after another. That’s the takeaway from quarterly economic and ...

Jonathan Choe and Brandi Kruse challenged Washington’s press credentialing system, reshaping access rules and highlighting tensions also seen in Oregon and Idaho as traditional media gatekeeping faces ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. DES MOINES — As the use of artificial intelligence expands into new aspects of society, a new use was ...

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When politicians are candidates for office, they like to say that they'll run government like a business. This is a promise that's easier said than done. Let's say a would-be entrepreneur approached a ...

Iowa's 2025 legislative session is likely to extend past its scheduled last day, which is this Friday, May 2. Lawmakers must finalize the state budget before they can end the session. It's unclear how ...

Legislators are officially back to work in the statehouse this week — and redistricting is obviously top of mind. Gov. Gavin Newsom last week officially launched his campaign for mid-cycle ...

SALT LAKE CITY — More than a year after the Utah Supreme Court said lawmakers overreached by changing a ballot initiative on redistricting, a lower court judge ruled Monday that the current maps can't ...

On the last day of the regular session, the Louisiana Legislature settled two major debates: A bill that would have banned companies from owning both pharmacy benefit managers and drug stores died, ...