A federal appeals court has sided with Native American tribes in their fight against the federal government over a $10 ...

The Tuscarora created a unified government. The only problem? Many longtime leaders aren’t on board with the plan.

Seventeen other states, however, say it’s illegal to ban plastic items, effectively placing a ban on a ban. This kind of legal maneuvering is booming. Four states created preemptions this year ...

At first I thought a decrepit shelf in my garage finally gave way, causing stuff to fall to the floor. The metal shelves are ...

Indiana government has a new digital front door with the redesigned IN.gov website. The homepage now features an AI chatbot, ...

The land that would become Ohio at that time was part of the Northwest Territory, a vast stretch of land that was ceded to the United States after ... when the Northwest Ordinance was enacted.

The board on Dec. 17 denied an ordinance by a 4-3 vote to prohibit camping on city properties that closely reflected the ordinance out of Grants Pass. Director Lee Kemp created an ordinance in ...

One such document is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. Following the Revolutionary War, the British ceded lands to the United States through the Treaty of Paris. The land that eventually became Ohio, ...

Regarding the Northwest Ordinance, the bill states it “extended fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty,” to the territories and said, “religion, morality, and knowledge ...

Actually, townships were in place in many Midwest states, including Michigan, before they even became states. They were just territories at the time. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 charted a ...

The Northwest Ordinance outlined the process for admitting a new state to the Union and guaranteed newly created states would have equal rights as the original 13 states. In 1803, Jefferson advanced U ...