ALBANY – A bill to impose a 3% hotel occupancy tax on visitors to the Town of Cheektowaga’s 17 hotels passed the State Senate on Thursday. The proposal, sponsored by State Sen. April Baskin, D ...

With a slim margin, the state Senate on early Saturday morning gave final passage to the most significant piece of housing legislation to emerge from the Connecticut legislature in years. House ...

On Wednesday, the Senate passed its budget, which included this provision for unclaimed funds to be used for sports facilities. Now, it’s up to a conference committee to decide on the Senate's plan to ...

The U.S. Senate has added language to the major tax and budget policy bill that would restart and expand a compensation program for victims of nuclear radiation WASHINGTON -- A program to ...

If passed, the Senate bill would direct the Department of the Interior to sell between 0.5% and 0.75% of the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands over the next five years.

Senate District 2 This district is now in Tunica and Desoto counties. SD 2's incumbent, Sen. David Parker, R-Olive Branch, announced last week he will not be running in the special election.

Update: This story has been updated with additional information. Millions of acres of national forests and other public lands could be sold for housing development, per language inserted into the ...

Opponents of plans to build a bullet train link north of Los Angeles hand out protest signs at the California High-Speed Rail Authority board meeting in Burbank in 2018.

Big changes are being proposed to a food aid program as part of President Donald Trump's tax-cut legislation. Formerly known ...

The state has been sending money to public libraries since 1933. But this isn’t the first time the legislature has cut library funding. In 2008, libraries received 2.22% of Ohio’s general tax ...

A bill that would allow Oregon’s governor, rather than the state Board of Forestry, to choose the State Forester passed out of committee June 11. Senate Bill 1051 was introduced at the request ...

ShaRhonda J. Love, a former executive director of the Arkansas Minority Health Commission, announced she is seeking the 2026 Democratic nomination in state Senate District 15 -- a seat currently ...