Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has gone months without calling for a special election to fill a vacant Michigan Senate seat previously held by a Democrat.

California’s Democratic Legislature is expected to counter Texas’ mid-decade redraw of its congressional map with one of its ...

This cycle, 31 states will hold elections for attorney general—one in 2025 (Virginia) and the rest in 2026.— Currently, the GOP holds 28 attorney general offices to 22 for the Democrats (counting an ...

As Michigan’s budget stalemate continues in the weeks leading up to Labor Day, one area of consternation between the Democratic-led state Senate and the Republican-controlled state House is how to pay ...

Democratic state Sen. Vernonic Klinefelt, whose district extends from south of Eight Mile Road in Detroit to central Macomb Township, said she abhors the House’s school-funding plan for its ...

Two Republican legislators have proposed legislation that would prevent local governments from enacting “rights of nature” ...

Michigan has independent redistricting and a divided state government that pretty much take it out of the fight over congressional maps before 2026.

What is unusual this year is the Republican-controlled House, unlike the Democratic-led Senate, has not yet proposed and approved a full spending plan, a step that typically has been taken in the ...

As students start school this year, 17 states and the District of Columbia are imposing new cellphone restrictions.

The Texas House on Wednesday approved redrawn congressional maps that would give Republicans a bigger edge in 2026, muscling through a partisan gerrymander that launched weeks of protests by Democrats ...

A group representing local governments across Michigan is calling on state lawmakers to set aside $800 million over the next five years to help spur affordable housing projects, predicting the cash ...