The special session of the South Dakota state legislature on Tuesday, Sept. 23 is months in the making. Back in February, lawmakers voted against appropriating money to build a new men’s prison in Lincoln County in eastern South Dakota;

Washington Examiner Senior Investigative Editor Sarah Bedford said it is “unlikely” that the Senate will stay in Washington, D.C. this week to confirm Mike Waltz as ambassador to the United Nations before the general assembly.

As Utah Valley University reviews what happened during the shooting of Charlie Kirk, it's hired an outside firm to help investigate, KSL has learned.

The Notre Dame Student Senate voted Sept. 17 to impeach St. Edward’s Hall senator Michael Heffernan after repeated absences, narrowly reaching the two-thirds threshold required for removal.

Jack Whitver, the Iowa Senate Majority Leader who has been battling a brain tumor for more than a year, will not seek re-election and will step aside as leader, he announced Tuesday.

The Missouri legislature approved a redistricting plan targeting Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's district as part of a Trump-backed effort to expand the Republican House majority.

The Missouri Senate's first day of a redistricting and initiative petition special session got off to a rocky start on Wednesday after Republicans employed a rarely utilized maneuver to approve the rules.

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans silenced Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren for criticizing colleague and Attorney General-designate Jeff Sessions with the words of Coretta Scott King from three decades ago. Warren, whose name has been prominent in ...

Oregon Senators will not vote on the transportation bill on Wednesday after a last-minute change hours before the Oregon Senate was scheduled to meet.

An appeals court panel heard arguments Tuesday on whether the state House Republican majority can sit on bills adopted by the Legislature in the last session instead of sending them to the governor.

Pennsylvania’s state Senate is set to return to Harrisburg Monday afternoon, but with no agreed-upon solution for a state budget impasse that is already 10 weeks old, Harrisburg politicos say not to expect much more than a business-as-usual legislative session.