The ballot measure in Pierce County follows controversies surrounding Sheriff Keith Swank, at a time Washington is grappling ...

People who lost parental rights helped pass a bill to reform California's law blocking people with past convictions for ...

Funding cuts have threatened the work of community groups that work outside of law enforcement to support crime victims and ...

It’s an unusual sight in the Trump-era GOP: In many of Wyoming’s state primaries last week, Republican voters chose candidates who defended the state’s voting systems and election workers, over those ...

A dog at a polling location in New Hampshire, one of the states with September primaries. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Sipa USA) The 2026 primaries are reaching the end: The four remaining states that have ...

Five years after a federal court ruling introduced unlimited spending in Alaska elections, voters there hit back on Tuesday, defying their Republican governor and approving new limits that restrict ...

Vote-by-mail was not always such a hot topic. It’s a longstanding practice in the U.S., dating back to the Civil War and even before then. It’s secure, with audits repeatedly detecting virtually zero ...

Over 50,000 South Dakotans became eligible for Medicaid three years ago thanks to a constitutional amendment to vastly expand health care coverage that voters approved in 2022. Despite opposition from ...

Conservatives around the country cheered in 2022 when the U.S. Supreme Court ended federal protections for abortion. But in Kansas, the anti-abortion movement’s drive to outlaw the procedure has ...

News broke this month that the Trump administration is working on a plan to order the Census Bureau to exclude undocumented people in 2030, a move President Trump already pushed for ahead of 2020 as a ...