Missouri State Representative, Ben Baker has accepted an appointment by President, Donald Trump. Baker — who serves as a ...

The Missouri Senate appears on the verge of rekindling a 50-year-old fight over the role of the lieutenant governor.

South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden appointed Sen. David Wheeler, R-Huron, to serve as a judge in the state’s Third Circuit.

After the failure of an organization that sought to merge St. Louis City with St. Louis County, a Democratic lawmaker from ...

State Representative Melanie Stinnett today announced her candidacy for Missouri State Senate District 30, pledging to ...

The announcement by the Springfield representative comes as Sen. Lincoln Hough nears the end of his term limit in the ...

State Senator Royce West says if lawmakers don’t act now, Texas could miss out on critical economic opportunities. “If we want Texas to continue to be the ‘miracle,’ but people keep coming ...

Hills was appointed as the state senator representing the 26th Senate District on Feb. 28 in Palatine by a legislatively mandated committee to replace a sitting member of the Illinois General ...

Democrats also brought two successful amendments opposed by the Senate’s leadership, one that cut $35 million for hiring traveling nurses at the state hospital and one that added roughly $ ...

NEW HAVEN — A former Bridgeport state senator accused of federal wire fraud and conspiracy is asking a judge to throw out the charges against him in advance of a trial scheduled for December.

A bill to greatly expand efforts to lure film and TV production to Texas has passed the state Senate. The measure passed the upper chamber 23-8 on a strong bipartisan vote and now heads to the ...

The Senate voted 30 to 2. During the appropriations debate on April 16, House Minority Caucus Chair John Ray Clemmons, D-Nashville, sharply criticized Republicans for doubling the state budget and ...