Three-week impasse ends with deal that makes Republican Lisa Demuth speaker of the House for two years, gives GOP temporary ...

Democratic and Republican leaders of the Minnesota House have reached a power-sharing agreement to end a three-week stalemate.

A new year of lawmaking and politicking is underway in U.S. statehouses. Governors are acting quickly to outline their agendas. And in many cases, the influence of President Donald Trump already is ...

Those themes were prominent over the past two weeks as state legislatures convened, new ... s derision. Flags also will fly at full staff at the U.S. Capitol under an order from Republican House ...

The authorities could allow the country’s currency, the peso, to weaken against the dollar, effectively making its exports ...

The conditions could be ripe for a rise of the Capitol middle, with close margins in both chambers requiring cooperation to ...

Minnesota Republicans are preparing for their new role as the minority ... prove Sutton was willfully violating a state law. The Minnesota Campaign Finance Board Friday imposed fines on the Minnesota ...

(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) A worker adjusts U.S. flags on the stage ahead of an election night watch party for Republican presidential nominee ... Josh Shapiro and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, at a ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A new year of lawmaking and politicking is underway in U.S. statehouses. Governors are acting quickly to outline their agendas. And in many cases, the influence of President ...

All or part of eight states — some Democratic, some Republican, some swing — were ... the first steps toward admitting to the Union a new state: West Virginia. There were legal questions ...

Kristi Noem has ordered that the state's flags ... according to the flag advisory shared Thursday morning. Noem's decision comes a day after a number of other Republican governors of states ...

In the 2006 Minnesota general election, Republican Gov ... Minnesota Republicans could stage a coup. Though the state voted for an evenly split Minnesota House, GOP legislators have unilaterally ...