Springfield mayor's race officially has its first contender — serial entrepreneur Jeff Schrag, who aims to improve livability ...

Left unchecked, theocracy comes to dominate every realm of public and personal life. A reasonable separation of church and state checks that impulse to domination.

Arizona, Florida, New York and Nevada are among the states with upcoming abortion ballot initiatives. Democrats are counting ...

Missouri's sports betting ballot measure remains up in the air after a lengthy hearing resulted in no immediate action.

While it may go by different names depending on the state, "early voting" refers to the process that allows you to cast your ...

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, on Wednesday saw his latest bid to fund the government fail, taken down by his own right flank. He now has 11 days to figure out how to fund ...

She will also be on the ballot in Montana, Utah, Nevada, Alaska, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Maine, Maryland and Missouri ... to Donald Trump in the latter election; the Green Party candidate ...

A Cole County Circuit Court judge rejected an attempt to invalidate an initiative petition on sports betting Friday, allowing ...

Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft expects a definitive ruling on three pending lawsuits. Each lawsuit challenges an ...

Kennedy Jr. faced a costly and time-consuming process to appear on general election ballots as an independent ... those that are dark blue on the map below — and Washington, D.C., have confirmed ...

The state has a grossly gerrymandered state legislature and congressional delegation, and it has been fighting over new maps ...