The nonpartisan election handicapper Cook Political Report is rating 10 Democratic-held seats and eight seats held by ...

Portsmouth, is appointing an emergency committee of state legislators to assess the potential effect on Virginia's economy ...

The Virginia House of Delegates unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday to prevent lawmakers from using campaign dollars on personal expenses.

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Tuesday was the deadline for the House and Senate to complete work on their own bills. Expect some defeated or vetoed measures to resurface as issues in the fall campaigns.

Ken Martin, the head of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, was decisively elected chair of the Democratic National ...

This week, similarly desperate Springfield Republicans threw their own “Hail Mary.” They filed a lawsuit asking the Democratic-controlled Illinois Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional the state ...