Politics & Policy

County elections officials will have to keep waiting for a long-sought change to add a pre-election period to process absentee and mail-in ballots.

Delawareans would be automatically registered to vote after visiting the Division of Motor Vehicles under a bill approved by the State Senate Tuesday afternoon.

The state now requires counties to hold nine days of early, in-person machine voting ending the Sunday before Election Day in November.

Organizers say abolishing the filibuster is a way to follow through on electoral promises. But Republicans insist the maneuver isn't racist — and note its past use by Dems.

A battle over school board control is reflecting much larger political divisions in the Pennridge School District in upper Bucks County.

Paying people with disabilities only a fraction of the legal minimum wage is a vestige of a pre-World War II program.

The January siege of the Capitol is forcing lawmakers and top agency heads to pivot to find out about future threats.

On this week's Regional Roundup: NJ school reopening, news literacy, and Spotted Lanternflies.

More women are becoming lawmakers, but many legislatures still don't have family leave policies. That leaves new moms little choice but to miss out on the lawmaking process.

Families with older children are expelled under COVID-related authority that denies them a chance at asylum. Their decisions unfold amid a surge in attempted border crossings.

The proposed measure would prohibit use of no-knock warrants, a practice Kentucky police engaged in when they fatally shot Breonna Taylor.

The developments mark big steps by N.J. in advancing its oft-stated goal to become the hub of the supply chain to service multiple offshore-wind farms on the East Coast.

Resettling a single refugee family requires a huge effort, and after four years of neglect under the Trump administration, rebuilding the system will be difficult.

The In Our Hands PAC went public on Wednesday after forming late last year.

Biden at first backed a modification — but not elimination — of the filibuster. But he then suggested, at least on certain issues, he would go further.