Republicans and Democratic lawmakers show no signs of budging as the House takes up a bill to avert a partial government shutdown in less than two weeks. The bill to be voted on Friday would ...

House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled a stopgap funding bill to tide federal agencies over through the week before ...

U.S. senators are expected to vote Friday on competing stopgap bills that both aim to temporarily fund the government past ...

California faces a significant financial burden with a special election costing around $282 million statewide.

The Texas Supreme Court has cleared the way for Austin voters to decide on a proposed property tax increase this November, ...

The bill, backed by Sen. Alex Padilla, would require all states to adopt independent redistricting commissions.

House lawmakers are set to vote Tuesday on a controversial bill that would allow 14-year-olds in Washington, D.C. to be ...

The confounding proposal from Sen. Alex Padilla and California Democrats on Capitol Hill comes as Sacramento attempts ...

The Austin City Council voted to place the tax rate election on the Nov. 4 ballot to fund various parts of the city’s budget.

Some Metroplex school districts are holding elections that could change local property tax rates and bring in new school ...

The U.S. House of Representatives will debate and vote Tuesday on a bill that would allow 14-year-olds to be charged as ...

The Texas Supreme Court denied an emergency petition Friday tied to a lawsuit that claimed Austin's tax rate election ballot ...