Transit agencies in northern Illinois are facing a $771 million annual combined budget gap — and lawmakers did not pass ...

Months before a federal judge sentenced former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to prison on Friday, the once-mighty state Democratic Party chairman took the witness stand in his corruption ...

Michael Madigan, the country’s longest-serving state House leader, served as speaker of the Illinois House from 1983 until ...

Newsom’s barrage of attacks have left many demoralized Democrats hoping this is the anti-Trump leader they’ve been waiting ...

At universities in California, Illinois, Louisiana and Texas, students report changes to campus clubs and activities, diminished research opportunities and fears for international students’ safety.

In the wake of a wide-ranging gun-control law signed by Gov. Maura Healey last July, opponents of that legislation collected ...

A former Minnesota House speaker and her husband were killed and a state senator and his wife were wounded in targeted ...

House Republicans advanced a $21.9 billion K-12 school aid budget that would boost per-pupil funding, cut free school lunches ...

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has been clear about his red line as the Senate takes up the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act: no ...

In North Carolina, it was a lawsuit over the state’s voter registration records. In Arizona and Wisconsin, it was a letter to ...

Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they ...

DACA, a program that has allowed hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to build stable lives and contribute to ...