The federal government could soon be headed for a shutdown unless Democrats and Republicans can reach an agreement prior to a ...

North Carolina's new, $30-billion budget passed initial votes at the legislature Thursday — the first in a series of approvals that are expected to soon wrap up months of negotiations on the ...

The assembly passes amendments to the state’s two-year budget every odd year, but this year, the House and Senate continued debating the budget past the July 1 deadline, the start of the fiscal ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — During the second to last day of Louisiana's legislative session, lawmakers cleared a major hurdle in crafting the state's fiscal plan — voting to breach the ...

Louisiana lawmakers passed a budget plan that included hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure payments. (Photo by Julie O'Donoghue) In the end, Louisiana public school teachers will get ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – Virginia lawmakers passed a budget bill that gives teachers and state employees pay raises, funds public schools and mental health programs and sends one-time rebate ...

Already two months late, final negotiations on the North Carolina budget are happening this weekend between the most powerful politicians in the state. By Monday afternoon, Republican legislators ...

RICHMOND — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) has summoned the General Assembly to a special legislative session on Sept. 6 to take up long-delayed amendments to the state budget. Youngkin issued ...

RICHMOND, Va. — The politically divided Virginia General Assembly approved long-overdue budget legislation Wednesday, voting in an unusually fast-paced special session to both reduce taxes and ...

North Carolina's new, $30-billion budget passed initial votes at the legislature Thursday — the first in a series of approvals that are expected to soon wrap up months of negotiations on the ...