The ordinance would reduce the threshold for winning a Sioux Falls City Council race to 35 percent of the vote.

Councilman Anthony Mattox Jr.'s campaign was still taxiing on the runway, waiting for his election petitions to be validated.

A dozen parish councils are unable to function due to a lack of candidates, stoking fears about the future of local democracy. Dauntsey, near Lyneham in Wiltshire, is one of the areas affected, with ...