State government agencies had a hard time shifting to remote working during Gov. John Bel Edwards’ stay-at-home order to help control the spread of COVID-19, according to a Louisiana Legislative Auditor (LLA) report made public Monday.

A bill that would allow victims in all personal injury and wrongful death cases to collect 9% interest on money they were awarded by a court starting when the incident took place is under fire.

Florida will receive a 40,000-dose boost in its weekly allocation of COVID-19 vaccines, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday while announcing plans to reopen testing sites as drive-thru inoculation centers and expand other distribution programs statewide.

New Hampshire businesses may soon have to double minimum wages if President Joe Biden keeps his campaign promise to raise the national rate to $15 per hour.

Demoting major tax exemptions and restrictions from the Louisiana Constitution to statutes could give lawmakers the tools to simplify the state's complex tax system, the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana (PAR) said in a new paper.

Former President Donald Trump’s legal team called the House Democratic impeachment effort a “violation" of the Constitution as they urged the Senate to toss the case or acquit him in the trial set to start next week.

Legislation pending in the New Mexico Legislature would see taxpayers there paying for the construction of new public school buildings and a mandate that those buildings be outfitted with solar panels.

As vaccinations continue at Illinois nursing homes, some health organizations are asking why more pharmacies aren’t involved to speed up the process.

Combined local, state and federal per pupil spending in South Carolina has increased nearly 19% since 2001, according to a new education spending database published by the Palmetto Promise Institute and Acuitas Economics.

Wyoming lawmakers have filed a bill that would prevent public employees who also are elected legislators from double-dipping on the taxpayers' dime when they are being paid to work as a state lawmaker.

Republican parties in nearly half of Wyoming’s counties moved to censure their sole congresswoman, Rep. Liz Cheney, over her vote to impeach then-President Donald Trump.

Senate Republican Leader Tom Kean Jr. will not seek reelection to the New Jersey Senate, capping a 20-year-long career in the state Legislature.

After months of Gov. J.B. Pritzker blocking sporting events for students across the state because of COVID-19 concerns, some games are set to start this week, but they will look different depending on where the games are played.

A group of nearly two dozen Republican congressmen called on the Senate to hit the pause button on President Biden’s nominee for commerce secretary over her lack of a promise to keep Chinese Communist Party-linked telecom giant Huawei on the U.S. trade blacklist…

Attorney Lin Wood, who has been at the center of unfounded claims of election fraud in Georgia, is reportedly under investigation by the state into if he voted illegally.

Congress passed a rule that fines members thousands of dollars if they avoid metal detectors to enter the House chamber, a push that began after the Capitol siege on Jan. 6.

President Biden made an unexpected visit to the U.S. Capitol Building to honor Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who is lying in honor in the Rotunda.

The Pentagon awarded an Australia-based company tens of millions of dollars to ramp up its rare earth element operations in Texas as the United States and its allies push back against Chinese global dominance of the crucial industrial sector.

A new poll conducted by the University of California at Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies found that Gov. Gavin Newsom's job approval rating plummeted by 18 percentage points in three months. In October, he had a 49% approval rating; in January…

A bill in the Washington Legislature seeks to increase taxes on the state's top earners.

Polls show most Americans want to see an end to the use of neck restraints that killed George Floyd of Minnesota, but Washington activists say new legislation will accomplish the opposite.