Can 12 members of a state Senate committee speak for the entire General Assembly? That question was at the heart of Thursday’s hearing in the Supreme Court of Virginia in a case that could ...

State officials have tapped former Office of Management and Budget Director Pam Sharp to fill one of the three open seats on ...

A senate committee has cancelled its regular meeting instead of voting on four federal nominations from Mississippi for the second consecutive week. The full U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary has ...

Robert “Bob” Cantin, 66, a lifelong Chicopee resident, is a newcomer and will go head-to-head with Mark McCarthy, who was chosen last year to be the at-large member by a Special Committee of the City ...

CHICOPEE — There are close to 40 people running for public office in Chicopee’s municipal election, which is on Tuesday. Several of the positions, including the race for city collector, city ...

Business NSW chief executive Daniel Hunter is under fire for being paid to sit on the board of icare while publicly ...

On Nov. 1, the governor is required to submit a budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year to the Joint Budget Committee.

Despite a myriad of ongoing issues at the Illinois Department of Corrections, state senators approved the nomination of ...

The rulings came a day before the Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the nation’s biggest food aid ...

Louisiana’s governor ripped a $50-million buyout for the flagship’s football coach and declared the now-outgoing athletic ...

President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster, so that the Republican majority can bypass Democrats and reopen the federal government ...