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For three days, every year, Virginia residents have a chance to stock up on school supplies, clothing and other qualifying items during a three-day sales tax holiday. The 2022 sales tax holiday will happen from 12:01 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 20 through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 22. During the sales tax holiday, residents can purchase qualifying items without sales tax in stores and through online

LANSING — The Michigan House early Friday morning approved a suite of reforms to address climate change that would fundamentally change how the state gets its energy and require utilities to draw all their power from clean sources by 2040. Working late into the night, the measures were approved along party lines, with pleas from Democrats that changes are long overdue and opposition from

After being renewed a second time, the state of emergency is not set to expire until 11:59 p.m., Nov. 29, pausing gas taxes through Thanksgiving, according to the executive order. The renewal is set to end the same day as the Georgia General Assembly's scheduled special session, according to the order. "Continued action by the State of Georgia is necessary to to ensure the restoration of

The Portland City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved a negotiated deal that will allow an independent monitor to oversee police compliance of fewer federally-mandated reforms stemming from a 2014 settlement over use of force. The agreement dismisses the city from about half of the settlement’s other demands. Mayor Ted Wheeler said the “very solid compromise” will allow the city to focus