The Houston-centered congressional seat has been vacant for the past 332 days, since the death of U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner.

The list, as it was presented by the Texas Education Agency this month, would mandate all public schools teach passages of ...

Senate Democrats plan to block the Department of Homeland Security funding bill, and some Senate Republicans contend that the ...

Caving to pressure from Republican state lawmakers, the Phoenix City Council decided to shelve plans to expand the light rail ...

Addison on Tuesday became the latest city in the DART system to schedule a May election to leave the public transportation agency, joining Plano, ...

A legislative committee likely still will consider a bill to restrict cities from enforcing anti-camping ordinances after a vote was delayed Monday.

Dhaka University student Sadman Mujtaba Rafid defied his parents and police to join protests that toppled former Bangladesh ...

A state committee has delayed a vote on legislation that would stop local jurisdictions from enforcing anti-camping ordinances when no shelter space is available.

But the two systems diverge when there is no majority winner. Plurality simply chooses the candidates with the most first-place votes, while ranked choice voting eliminates the person with the fewest ...

The payment was a pivotal part of the alternative city budget approved over Mayor Brandon Johnson's objections. But he chose ...

André Ventura, the leader of Portugal's hard-right Chega party, has placed second in the country's presidential election ...

Alternative voting measures such as online and telephone voting will officially be available for future municipal elections in Fort Frances, though balloting for byelections will remain a paper-based ...