Texas Democrats ended their walkout and returned as Republicans advance a redistricting plan that would likely create five ...

Texas Republicans are near passing a new congressional map, sparking a response from California and igniting a new battle ...

In nine days No. 12 Illinois kicks off its football season against Western Illinois with expectations of competing for a spot ...

In sports, the winning team doesn’t get to rewrite the rules to guarantee it’ll never lose again. In a democracy, the same ...

Texas Republicans on Wednesday will take up a new state congressional map intended to flip five Democratic-held U.S. House ...

Neither The AP or USA TODAY had Illinois football players on their preseason all-America lists — the highest ranked team to ...

A truck driver from Texas is facing charges after a traffic stop netted 15 kilos of cocaine Saturday morning in Kankakee County.

Texas Democrats are joining a colleague who can't leave the state Capitol because she won't agree to having law enforcement ...

The Texas House reached a quorum earlier Monday after Democrats returned to Austin, ending a two-week standoff with ...

Scott Richey covers college basketball for The News-Gazette. His email is [email protected], and you can follow him on ...

The current Illinois congressional maps signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker in 2021 received a grade of “F” by Princeton’s Gerrymandering Project.