From the time a Tennessee woman gets pregnant, she faces greater obstacles to a healthy pregnancy, a healthy child and a ...

Should military retirement income be exempt from state taxation? That’s the goal of one of the very first bills filed for the 2025-26 legislative session. From Sen. Kelly Seyarto, a Republican whose ...

Despite Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoing Democrats’ attempts to raise Virginia’s minimum wage during the last ...

An effort to push the Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act through Congress failed in November after one ...

Also in this week's education roundup: Local districts review policies to protect immigrant students in response to President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration rhetoric; College of the Desert moves ...

Name a hot topic, and chances are good there’s a new law about it taking effect in 2025 in one state or another. Many of the ...

A number of big changes are coming for renters in California heading into the new year, when a slate of new state laws are set to go into effect.

The bill, House Bill 5164, would eliminate an existing requirement to publish name changes with a local newspaper. It would ...

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Democratic lawmakers mostly opposed Proposition 36, instead favoring a series of crime bills they said augmented Proposition ...

Oregon will miss out on millions in funding from the Secure Rural Schools bill, which passed the Senate but failed to garner ...