State lawmakers heard testimony Friday on a proposal to increase Washington’s cigarette tax by 66% while amending a separate ...

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued an initial list of interim charges for Texas Senate committees to pursue ahead of the next ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is celebrating the expansion of a French cheese-making facility in Illinois House Republican Leader Tony ...

Just more than four weeks until each is expected to prevail in large volume primaries for a U.S. Senate seat representing ...

Officials with the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association are concerned about efforts to raise property taxes on California’s ...

Texas oil and natural gas upstream employment rebounded in December after suffering losses in November, according to the ...

The Seattle Police Officers Guild is not impressed with Mayor Katie Wilson’s recently announced series of initial steps to ...

Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to prohibit local law enforcement from being deputized by ICE for federal civil ...

Franklin Arnett Clifton was sentenced this week to death after being convicted of killing a woman in a drive-by shooting in ...

Six days after an ice storm roared into Metro Nashville, more than 70,000 customers are still without power, according to ...

The newest member of the Illinois Supreme Court has been installed. Former appellate court justice Sanjay T. Tailor was sworn ...

Virginians say they support a wide range of policy proposals under debate in Richmond, according to a new statewide poll.