Julie Menin was unanimously elected Speaker of the City Council on Wednesday, elevating the Upper East Side moderate to one of the most powerful posts in the city in which she can both bolster and ...

Katie Wilson, a longtime City Hall advocate whose rise in Seattle politics came as she pushed for more progressive taxes, has been elected the city’s next mayor. On Wednesday, Wilson took a 1,976-vote ...

A Maine woman who previously served time as a convicted killer was elected to serve on a local city council on Tuesday night, causing a stir on social media in the process. Angela Walker was elected ...

A convicted killer who was sentenced to a decade behind bars for suffocating a Canadian tourist with sand was elected to the city council of a Maine city that inspired Stephen King’s “It.” Angela ...

Mike Toole is the managing editor for CBS Boston. He has worked in the WBZ-TV newsroom for more than 20 years. He previously wrote and produced news and sports at WABC-TV in New York. Boston Mayor ...

Mark Levine will be New York City’s next comptroller. According to the Associated Press, with nearly 90% of the expected vote counted, Levine holds 75.1% of the vote, while Republican Peter Kefalas ...

Ghazala Hashmi, elected as lieutenant governor, became the first Muslim woman to win statewide office in any state. By Campbell Robertson The New York City mayoral race was not the only contest in ...

Democrat Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City on Tuesday, becoming the youngest man picked to lead the five boroughs in modern history in what is widely seen as a watershed moment for his ...

Virginia state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi on Tuesday became the first Muslim American woman elected to statewide office in the U.S. with her victory in the lieutenant governor's race, NBC News projects. Her ...

More than a dozen elected officials were arrested Thursday while protesting conditions at a New York City immigration holding facility where a federal judge this week extended a court order requiring ...

We asked adults in 25 countries to rate how common five characteristics are among the elected officials in their country. In general, people give their elected officials fairly negative ratings on ...

The ‘Lord of the Rings’ star will preside over the union alongside his running mate Michelle Hurd, who was appointed to the secretary-treasurer role in a low-turnout election. By Katie Kilkenny Labor ...