On Tuesday, Hawaii, the nation's lone indoor mask holdout, became the last state to end its universal mask mandate, effective March 25 at 11:59 p.m.

"Mask mandates are making a comeback in California," said Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., who faces a challenge from Democrat Jessica Morse. "My opponent, a Newsom staffer, supports toddler masking.

Immigration Blue state lawmaker rallies around mask ban for federal agents as ICE operations ramp up DHS spokesperson rips Democrat's proposal and anti-ICE rhetoric, calling it 'despicable' ...

News Region/State Hochul announces deal on $254B state budget including tax breaks, school cellphone ban The state New York State Capitol in Albany. Credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr.

A bill has been introduced in the Massachusetts state legislature that would ban law enforcement from wearing masks and one lawmaker, who is co-sponsoring the bill, is from western Massachusetts.

The State wants the last surviving witness of a 2021 Khayelitsha shooting in which 12 people were killed to testify while wearing a face mask and to be exempt from disclosing his real name to the ...

A group of Democratic state lawmakers have joined with an array of civil rights organizations, Jewish groups and faith leaders to push for a new ban on masks in New York state. On Thursday, supporters ...

Some Republicans in the North Carolina state House are voicing opposition to a push by Senate colleagues to remove a public health exception to the state's mask ban — an effort that has called ...

In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, lawmakers made an exception to the state mask law that allowed people to wear masks in public to protect people from catching or spreading an illness.

Tonight he walked in without a mask and shook hands. Many in the audience were also free of the cloth coverings that have become a symbol of Covid-19, and a source of political rancor.