Colorado's lawmakers in the state Senate advanced a bill to ban the sale and manufacture of some semiautomatic weapons.

A Feb. 15 special primary election was called to fill the two vacancies in the Legislature after Cleo Fields, a Baton Rouge ...

Your overview of the candidates and issues in the Feb. 25 special election. The top two vote-getters will face off in April ...

The longtime sheriff in North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger’s home county said Thursday he plans to run for Berger’s ...

Well-known Florida state Democratic Sen. Geraldine Thompson passed away on Thursday after complications from knee replacement surgery.

Senate Leader Winnie Brinks previously vowed to "defend the integrity" of two proposals on the minimum wage and earned sick ...

The legislation is designed both fund the system, which has run out of money, and to also dramatically shrink the number of ...

Michigan Senate Republican Leader Aric Nesbitt is making his case to be the state’s next governor in an interview at WDIV in ...

New Mexico state Senator Cindy Nava recalled how her father, a former police officer in Chihuahua, Mexico, instilled in her a respect for the law even though he brought his family to the U.S.

In the coming weeks, meetings with all three stakeholders will take place. The bills will be cleaned up and in theory, by the ...

"I want to make sure we are protecting our parks," state Sen. Gayle Harrell told POLITICO. "But I also want to make sure ...