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Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election sparked protests across the nation Wednesday, with crowds marching through city streets, rallying at college campuses and staging walkouts at schools in an open disavowal of the president-elect.
The GOP successfully defended its majorities in most chambers and also picked up chambers in Kentucky and Iowa, giving the party full control of those states.
The first-ever environmental impact bond gives an agency some of its money back if its idea doesn't pan out.
Despite the Trump tide, voters at the local level approved new taxes on soda and bond measures for housing and transportation. They also ousted several tough-on-crime prosecutors, as well as Trump ally Joe Arpaio.
Judicial elections weren't a clear sweep for either party.
It was a lesser-noticed but important downballot trend from election night.
Democrats managed to flip the Vermont LG seat blue -- even as the state governorship flipped red.
Most races for states' attorneys general maintained the status quo, but one seat switched to Republican control.
With one election likely headed for a recount, Democrats have lost power in three states, including traditionally blue Vermont.
A communications expert reveals the most effective ways, and the results may surprise you.
Republican officials in Maine warned voters to “come out to vote in order to secure their ballot from misuse.”
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says a federal jury's conviction Friday of two former aides in a political payback scheme involving the George Washington Bridge does not reflect poorly on him and confirms what he thought when the scandal erupted in January 2014.
The Justice Department will deploy 500 personnel to polling stations on Election Day to help protect voters against discrimination and intimidation, down from 2012 as the result of a Supreme Court ruling that gutted part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
In January, Lucia Guzman hopes to do what she's done each of the last three times she's been elected to the Colorado Senate.
Federal judges in North Carolina and Pennsylvania have turned down Democratic Party requests for orders barring their Republican counterparts from harassing voters at the polls.
Powered by a historic number of early voters, many in Democratic strongholds, Florida's pre-election turnout hit a record 6.4 million Monday, more than any other state and equal to half of the state's nearly 13 million voters.
The costs of Oregon's most contentious campaigns continue to rise in the final days before the election.
The fifth strongest earthquake to hit Oklahoma came Sunday night about 7:44 p.m., rattling people's nerves and shaking buildings across central Oklahoma.
The week-long work stoppage that sidelined subways, trolleys, and buses and threatened to complicate a closely contested presidential election ended in the pre-dawn hours Monday as SEPTA and leadership for the Transportation Workers Union Local 234 reached a tentative five-year agreement on a new contract for 4,738 transit personnel.
A federal judge has rejected a bid by the Pennsylvania Republican Party to legalize a call from presidential nominee Donald Trump for supporters to serve as itinerant Election Day poll watchers.
A federal judge Friday ordered three North Carolina to restore names to voter rolls that were part of a recent mass purge.
The Supreme Court cleared the way for Arizona Republican leaders to enforce a new state law that makes it felony for anyone other than family members and caregivers to deliver mail-in ballots to polling places.
Our final pre-election predictions for the Electoral College, gubernatorial, attorney general and legislative races.
A federal jury found two former aides to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie guilty of conspiring to misuse Port Authority of New York and New Jersey resources to cause tremendous traffic problems near the George Washington Bridge in September 2013 as part of a scheme to punish a local mayor.
They're a major engine of job growth. Yet most economic-development strategies focus on big businesses.
The only thing that's predictable is unpredictability. For the people who run elections, it's never too late to take inventory.
Meanwhile, state employment has changed little.
Voters in the state approved ballot measures that would, among other things, let unaffiliated voters participate in primaries.
Gov. Wolf signed into law Wednesday a package of bills intended to curb the epidemic of opioid abuse in Pennsylvania.
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