Two statewide votes are headlining the election calendar in April. First, Wisconsin will choose a new supreme court justice, ...

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill on Wednesday signed legislation banning local law enforcement agencies from partnering ...

A bill passed by lawmakers would not outright bar local contracts with ICE. But they could continue only if ICE accepts due ...

Last November, the city of Verona, Wisconsin, voted to pull out of the sprawling surveillance network run by tech company ...

The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to federal ...

Supporters of Eileen Higgins, a candidate for Miami mayor, outside Miami City Hall in November 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) On the heels of their sweeping wins in November, Democrats have ...

Liberals have an opportunity next month to lock down a majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court through 2030, which would hand them a critical backstop during the next presidential election, as the ...

In 2019, while incarcerated at the Centennial Correctional Facility in Colorado and assigned to shifts in the kitchen, Nadia Reed refused to work for two days in one month. All incarcerated people in ...

This story was produced as a collaboration between Bolts and The 51st. One recent Tuesday, between a Latin dance session in the morning and lunch at midday, a group of residents at a senior center in ...

This page compiles, state-by-state, the local offices that administer elections at the state, county, and municipal level. It lays out who oversees the preparation and conduct of the election, from ...