This story is part of Bolts’ series on sheriffs in the run-up to the midterms; read more on Maryland, North Carolina, Washington, and Wisconsin. When New York legislators approved the state budget ...

In Culver City, California, students are trying to drum up support for a November ballot measure to let 16- and 17-year-olds ...

Below are the candidates who filed to run for prosecutor by the state’s filing deadline. The information was obtained from state election officials. Candidates for prosecutor in Arkansas do not run ...

The 30 Prosecutor and Sheriff Races that Will Shape Criminal Justice Next Week Michael Barajas, , Daniel Nichanian, April 19, 2022 ...

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Voters in Lewiston, Maine, here pictured in 2022, will decide a competitive state House seat critical to control of the state government this year. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) Democrats hold the ...

A dog at a polling location in New Hampshire, one of the states with September primaries. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Sipa USA) The 2026 primaries are reaching the end: The four remaining states that have ...

Large glass windows outside of the Tennessee House and Senate chambers allow legislators to look out onto the Nashville landscape: Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, City Hall, Legislative ...

Faced with popular initiatives to protect abortion rights and other measures they dislike, state Republicans are passing new bills that local advocates say will hollow out direct democracy. Organizers ...

We’re tracking elections across 12 states. Virginia and Wisconsin have statewide contests, school board races test conservative messaging, and parties battle to control cities, counties, and even ...

One morning in late January, civil engineer Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz was driving to work in Portland, Maine, when federal agents in town for the so-called Operation Catch of the Day immigration ...

Prisons across the United States run on incarcerated labor. People behind bars cook food, sew clothes, clean facilities, manufacture goods, and even work in dangerous industries like agriculture and ...