Mandatory processes and detailed rules have increasingly constrained officials’ discretion, leading to endless lawsuits, decadeslong project delays and multibillion-dollar cost overruns. There’s a ...

Abbott is in Washington this week to lobby Congress for $11 billion to compensate Texas for money spent on immigration ...

The proposed measures include a bill allowing incarcerated individuals to register and another that would require ID ...

Republicans are exploring cuts to Medicaid in an effort to pay for the president’s priorities. But public opinion, a divided ...

The amount the U.S. House GOP raised the U.S. debt limit in their budget resolution, released Wednesday. The resolution, if adopted, would extend Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and boost border security ...

GOP legislators and governors around the country are borrowing Trump's ideas and language on a host of issues. Separately, ...

State lawmakers have introduced bills to limit SNAP benefits, change vaccine policies and ban fluoride in public water.

Rep. Dustin Burrows is looking to change the dynamic among the "Big Three" – the governor, Lt. governor, and the House ...

Tools are available to not only count people experiencing homelessness more accurately but also to provide them with ...

If it remains in place, the president’s order will add deep uncertainty to the future of a nascent industry that could provide tens of thousands of jobs and significant clean energy that the grid ...

Jeff Landry signed a bill last year that classified abortion medications as controlled substances. (Gage Skidmore via Flickr) ...

Mike Madigan, a former state Democratic Party chair, had been the longest-serving chamber leader in U.S. history. A jury has ...