BISMARCK - House Majority Leader Al Carlson, R-Fargo, saying he objects to being "treated like a mushroom" during the state budgeting process, pushed through a plan in the House on Tuesday to have a ...

MADISON - Republican lawmakers who control the state Legislature and Democratic Gov. Tony Evers for the first time under the last seven years of divided government spent weeks hashing out agreements ...

Budget-writing season has been especially difficult this year in many Indiana cities, towns and counties as elected officials grapple with the effects of a new law that overhauled the tax systems that ...

This is budget-writing time for many state legislatures around the United States, and this year almost every state is planning significant cuts to healthcare programs. Medicaid reimbursement is always ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed a new two-year budget in the early morning hours Thursday in a race against Congress to ensure the state gets a federal Medicaid match that it ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- This week is Money Smart Week and Chicago City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin gave some money-saving tips to get you started. Treasurer Conyears-Ervin has five tips to get out of ...

Every month I go over my bank transactions and other finances from the preview month. I started doing this a couple years ago by creating a spreadsheet for each month, where I made a separate column ...

July 1 was an extremely significant day in the United States Senate. Fifty members of that august body gave up any pretense that they were public servants and voted for a bill that they admitted was ...

Democratic lawmakers in Dover have introduced new legislation designed to protect against a looming $400 million shortfall ...