South Carolina Senate takes a pass on drawing a new Midterm map, High gas prices leave small Iowa businesses teetering; Is your Texas ZIP code making you sick? Solar-powered rooftop gardens a boon to warming Massachusetts cities.

Ken Paxton wins Texas Senate primary runoff. Courts are delivering mixed verdicts on Republican redistricting plans and the U.S. strikes on Iran halt ceasefire talks.

US launches strikes on Iran, targeting missile sites and boats; Ohio bill would extend the statute of limitations for sexual assault survivors; Georgia codifies 'one-stop' Family Justice Center model; Lure of data center derails needed housing project in rural Maine.

South Dakota's new federal-only voter law prevented an RV-dwelling couple from voting in state and local races at a Minnehaha County polling place last week, raising questions about how poll workers are implementing the restriction.

A South Dakota woman is urging families of Vietnam veterans to use a national program that honors those who survived the war but later died from Agent Orange-related illnesses.

North Dakota voters in two counties and 11 cities will decide in June whether to raise sales taxes to fund public safety, infrastructure and other local services amid concerns about a new statewide property tax cap.

Testing hospital wastewater can detect the deadly fungus C. auris five months before it appears in patient clinical tests, a new study finds.

Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray urges redrawing electoral maps near Wind River Indian Reservation, citing a Supreme Court ruling, but tribal nations say the move would eliminate Native representation.

Voluntary departures from the U.S. have surged sevenfold under Trump administration detention policies that critics say coerce immigrants into leaving despite legal rights to stay.

Insect populations across New Mexico are declining sharply due to heat, drought, pesticides and habitat loss, threatening the ecosystems that depend on them for pollination and food.