For 20 days that July, the state laid off 19,000 workers. State parks and rest areas didn't get cleaned. Horse tracks ...

While lawmakers were supposed to have the Minnesota budget finished by May 19, at least two-thirds of the state budget still ...

When the legislature left after the 60-day regular session ended in May, they did so without passing the one, ...

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), a candidate for Illinois’s open Senate seat next year, declined to say whether he would ...

Florida lawmakers won't return to the Capitol this week, as the budget impasse inches closer to a shutdown deadline.

Senate Bill 10 now goes back to the Senate for concurrence before advancing to Gov. Greg Abbott, who is expected to sign it ...

The Texas Senate agreed Friday to make it easier for the new city, home to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to shutter the beach during rocket launches.

The latest news about budget negotiations between the Florida House and Senate is that there really isn’t any news to report.

In our news wrap Thursday, the Trump administration escalated its battle with Harvard University and revoked the school's ability to enroll international students, a federal judge blocked President ...

The House voted to extend the session to June 30, raising the specter of a government shutdown if a budget deal isn't reached before then.

With the threat of a government shutdown averted after the Senate passed a government funding bill Friday, Washington and the nation can breathe a sigh of relief. But in the aftermath, Senate ...

Senate Democrats spent days debating the uncomfortable choice of whether to allow the bill to pass or let the government shut down. The vote came after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ...