A number of accountability bills have sailed through legislative committee hearings. Others could use some last-minute public support.

As the 2025 budget continues to generate reactions from various quarters, JOHN AMEH details the concerns from critics and how lawmakers have been responding to them.Nigeria has a new Appropriation ...

Amid a push by local leaders to conserve farmlands and open spaces in the Bay Area from future development, state senator David Cortese has introduced a bill that would shore up funding to preserve ...

Of the 25 priority bills Patrick identified, two had been filed before his announcement: Senate Bill 1, the state budget, and SB 2 — the controversial $1 billion school voucher program that the ...

Gov. Glenn Youngkin says he appreciates consensus for tax relief, but says it should take a different form. He says he ...

And finally one of the other sponsors, Rep John Bear, R-Campbell, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, stood up ...

Trump and Republican congressional leaders could fumble their way into a prolonged and painful shutdown of the federal ...

Senators are chugging through an late-night budget “vote-a-rama,” a crucial, if dreaded, step toward President Donald Trump's ...

Legislators filed nearly 2,000 bills, plus more than a 1,000 resolutions in the 2025 General Assembly session. Most died.

Meanwhile, the cost of wildfires and wildfire mitigation is another reason electricity rates are high in California.

A Texas Senate bill filed on Tuesday would provide long-term pay raises to teachers based on years of experience, expand a ...