Oklahoma Department of Transportation employees are supposed to keep the roads safe and clear, but some also used state time and resources to send out potentially offensive emails that referred to the president as an “Ass hole” and mocked overweight people.

Guaranteed pensions — all but extinct in the private sector — are alive and well for government workers.

Democratic Sen. Mark Warner’s apparent victory leaves Virginia very much a purple state, with just enough Libertarians to change the hue from election to election.

An outspoken advocate for gun control lost her seat in the Vermont House of Representatives this week in what Second Amendment groups called a victory for firearms freedom in the Green Mountain State.

By M.D. Kittle | Wisconsin Reporter

MADISON, Wis. – In a court filing that one constitutional law expert calls a “stunning reversal,” the Government Accountability Board appears to concede that the “legal theory” driving the secret John Doe investigation into Wisconsin conservatives is legally “indefensible.”

U.S. Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana wants another term, but her spokesman won’t answer why she wants to continue representing residents who, she says, carry racist and sexist values.

As all eyes turned to the U.S. Senate races in Virginia and across the nation, a new law in the commonwealth seemed to pass its first election without too many hitches — Virginia’s controversial photo ID law.

Laws popping up around Florida make it pretty clear to the homeless they’re not welcome.

Students and faculty at the University of Hawaii are joining forces to try to force solutions to the system’s spiraling financial crisis.

In the annual rankings of business tax climates, New Mexico finished 38th for the fourth year in a row.