CONCORD – Property rights advocates won a strong victory Wednesday with the state Senate opposing the use of eminent domain for the Northern Pass transmission line project. By a two-to-one margin, the Senate approved outlawing eminent domain for any electric transmission line not eligible for federal or regional tariffs as a needed project. The 16-8 passage of the amended language was a key test ...

Although Democrats maintained their hold on Fairfax County’s state Senate seats in November’s elections, statewide results mean the county has less power in Richmond.

State Senate leadership says it’s drafted a redistricting plan that’s legal and doesn’t play politics. Senate Democrats don’t really agree. There was lots of talk about snakes and salamanders at the senate’s one – and only – public hearing on setting up 24 new senate districts for the next decade. Majority Leader Jeb Bradley says the goal of the plan was to create districts that make sense, not ...

FRANKFORT — A Democrat from far Western Kentucky will soon represent downtown Lexington in the state Senate under a redistricting plan approved by the Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday.

A redistricting bill passed Wednesday by the state Senate orphaned Sen. Dorsey Ridley in a piece of what he termed quot;political hardball.quot; The Senate approved a Republican plan that moves Ridley#39;s 4th Senate District about 200 miles east to the Lexington vicinity.