With Election Day rapidly approaching, citizens of states across the U.S. are casting votes not only in a tight presidential race, but also on contentious issues, like marijuana and abortion.

South Dakota voters will cast ballots on three high-profile referendums. The first would establish a right to abortion. The second would create open primaries. The third would legalize marijuana.

In 27 states, access to abortion is currently limited depending on gestational age, with bans ranging from six weeks to more than 24 weeks. Abortion is almost completely banned with limited exceptions ...

namely eminent domain reform — intended in part to limit the construction of a proposed carbon capture pipeline through ...

Since the Supreme Court two years ago overturned the national right to abortion and returned its regulation to state legislatures, activists pushed to get abortion measures on ballots in states ...