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Federal judges invalidated two Texas congressional districts Tuesday, ruling that they must be fixed by either the Legislature or a federal court.
Provo Mayor John Curtis has won the Republican primary to replace former Rep. Jason Chaffetz in Utah's 3rd District.
onfederate statues in Baltimore were removed from their concrete bases overnight, as crews using heavy machinery loaded them onto flat bed trucks and hauled them away, an end to more than a year of indecision surrounding what to do with the memorials.
It appeared late Tuesday that Texas' legislative special session would end a day earlier than expected with only about half of Gov. Greg Abbott's priorities having passed both the House and the Senate and made it to the governor's desk.
For the revolution to succeed, smart regulators and thoughtful entrepreneurs will need to work together.
Skyrocketing price tags for new drugs to treat rare diseases have stoked outrage nationwide. But hundreds of old, commonly used drugs cost the Medicaid program billions of extra dollars in 2016 vs. 2015, a Kaiser Health News data analysis shows. Eighty of the drugs — some generic and some still carrying brand names — proved more than two decades old.
The head of the city's tourism and convention agency said hotels have lost business as a result of a travel advisory issued by the national NAACP last month and that her industry is "being used as a weapon" in the political arena.
Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday signed a bill that will require Texas women to pay an extra health insurance premium for non-emergency abortions, one of three abortion-related items the governor placed on lawmakers' agendas for the special session.
Arkansas has signaled that it intends to invest in Israel and, through the enactment of two laws during this year's regular session, is standing up to a movement that seeks to boycott, divest from and punish the Middle Eastern country, Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the U.S., said Monday.
Delaware's economic development efforts are about to undergo a major transformation.
Twice as many Republicans can't run again for state legislative office. That could help Democrats, but how much?
Six states now prohibit their employees from taking nonessential work trips to states with laws that, in their view, discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
Hundreds of Indianapolis municipal employees are about to become eligible for raises.
Gov. Paul LePage used the lure of higher wage increases for members of Maine's largest state workers union to win a key concession in his campaign to weaken the clout of organized labor.
California joined San Francisco on Monday in taking legal action challenging a Trump administration threat to withhold federal public safety grants from sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate in deportations.
The thousands of demonstrators have left Charlottesville, Va. The bronze statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, around which the protests were focused, remained standing. A memorial service was being planned for the woman who was killed, and many of the 19 people injured remained in the hospital.
The state will refund close to $21 million to Michigan residents after reviewing cases in which an Unemployment Insurance Agency computer system falsely accused tens of thousands of people of committing benefits fraud, the agency said Friday after completing a review of affected cases.
A second Miami judge has ruled that the Florida Legislature’s decision to broaden the protection of the long controversial “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law is unconstitutional.
When taxi driver Habtamu Tarekegn decided to “go green” by buying an electric car, he was excited about the potential for economic independence at a time when D.C. cabbies are struggling to compete with Uber.
There are still some major unanswered questions about Trump's declaration.
Insurers are grappling with a serious predicament in finalizing how much their health plans will cost, even after a three-week extension from the Trump administration.
The Illinois Senate on Sunday adopted a resolution urging law enforcement officials to recognize white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups as terrorist organizations.
A peer counseling program in Rhode Island that has become a national model for its hospital-bed outreach to drug-overdose survivors is up against a daunting statistic.
Cook County's sweetened beverage tax has landed the state in hot water with the feds, potentially causing roughly $87 million in federal food stamp money to be withheld, Illinois officials said Thursday.
North Carolina’s legislative leaders adopted rules Thursday that they will use when drawing new election district lines, after 28 districts were ruled unconstitutional last year.
The Washington state Supreme Court has upheld Seattle's tax on gun and ammunition sales, according to an opinion issued Thursday morning.
Expressions of grief and solidarity have played out again and again in other American cities struck by tragedy _ impromptu memorials of flowers and cards, prayers for the dead and injured, pledges of peace.
Mayor Jim Gray released a video Sunday further explaining his decision to move two Confederate statues from the lawn of the former Fayette County courthouse on Main Street.
The National Transportation Safety Board wants governments to crack down on speeding, which claims as many traffic deaths as drunk driving. But the hard question is: How?
Delaware voters soon will cast their ballots on new voting machines. But exactly when – and what those machines will look like – remains to be seen.
Like Medicaid programs in many states that want more budgeting certainty or hope to save money, Medi-Cal is shifting many patients with complex conditions into managed care plans.
In a sleek laboratory at Marshall University last month, four high school teachers hunched over a miniature steam-electric boiler, a tabletop replica of the gigantic machinery found in power plants.
Maine is adopting rules about daily fantasy sports games that classify the contests as games of skill and create a tax structure for them.
A federal judge has permanently blocked a Louisiana law that prevented foreign-born U.S. citizens from getting married if they couldn’t produce a birth certificate.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a free speech lawsuit on behalf of one of the nation's most prominent right-wing provocateurs on Wednesday, arguing that Washington, D.C., transit officials violated Milo Yiannopoulos' First Amendment rights by removing advertisements for his new book.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has declared a state of emergency Thursday (Aug. 10) as a precautionary measure, in the event that the state has to help with flooding in New Orleans over the next few days.
To preserve their communities' economic and social wellbeing, leaders will need to manage an endless cycle of technological disruption.
Krish Vignarajah, a former policy director for First Lady Michelle Obama, is the latest Democrat to join Maryland's gubernatorial race.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
EUFAULA, Ala. — Hispanic immigrants here remember June 9, 2011, the day House Bill 56 became law.
Consumers in 16 states can take advantage of sales tax holidays this year—going on frenzied shopping sprees to buy items such as backpacks, computers and school clothes tax-free. But states confronting budget woes and a long list of spending priorities are questioning whether the hyped-up shopping events are worth the cost.
U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks on Wednesday dismissed the state of Texas’ lawsuit against Travis County and other defendants over the state's new immigration enforcement law.
State taxpayers would need an estimated 25 years to recoup up to $2.85 billion in proposed cash payments to bring a Taiwanese firm's display screen plant to southeastern Wisconsin, a report released Tuesday found.
The flooding in New Orleans on Saturday happened even though the drainage system was working as it was supposed to and didn't have any unexpected failures, Sewerage & Water Board officials said Monday.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed legislation Wednesday to increase the state's tobacco possession age to 21, a major victory for health advocates and a blow for Big Tobacco.
The concept caught fire in Europe and is gaining relevance in large and small cities across the Atlantic.
Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt is taking the lead for a 10-state coalition of attorneys general in filing a court brief defending state governments’ ability to regulate groundwater usage.
Law enforcement officials and nonprofits across Minnesota are taking aggressive new action to crack down on customers of prostitution -- often white, middle-aged and married men -- and boosting programs aimed at keeping teens out of the sex trade.
Governments are starting to realize that cybersecurity isn't just the responsibility of the IT department.
To find it, a new book says, localities need look no further than their roads, airports and convention centers.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is backing Wisconsin in a high-profile case asking the U.S. Supreme Court whether lawmakers can go too far when drawing political maps to advantage one party.
A Delaware Superior Court judge has ruled that the state's highest executive has broad authority to shield his emails from public view.
A federal appeals court has ruled that Maine can enforce a law that bars protests that are intentionally loud enough to be heard inside a building.
Incumbent Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and challenger state Sen. Coleman Young II will head for a showdown in November after both candidates garnered an overwhelming majority of votes in the Tuesday primary, knocking six other mayoral hopefuls out of the race.
When Dolores Loaeza was a baby and she needed medical care, her mother could call her pediatrician in Mexico for free advice, and, if needed, to send medication across the border to Los Angeles.
U.S. health insurer Anthem Inc (ANTM.N) said on Monday it will no longer offer Obamacare plans in Nevada's state exchange and will stop offering the plans in nearly half of Georgia's counties next year.
The U.S. Justice Department -- which last year backed civil rights groups in a court case over Ohio's decision to remove thousands of inactive voters from Ohio voter rolls -- is now taking a different tack under the administration of President Donald Trump.
The residents of House District 82 chose Phil Miller to be its new state representative during a special election Tuesday.
Local air quality officials are gaining new powers to quickly stop polluters when they endanger people's health under legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday.
Louisiana public schools are starting the 2017-18 academic year anew, and students will not be the only ones facing a new challenge.
Federal health officials wrongly approved a 10 percent reduction in California's already-low Medi-Cal rates for hospital outpatient services without considering the impact on access to care for more than 13 million low-income residents, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
Danielle Outlaw, a 19-year veteran of the Oakland Police Department who started as a police explorer when she was in high school, will serve as Portland's next chief, only the third outsider named to lead the Police Bureau.
Jack Bergeson is trying to be the next governor of Kansas, even though he won't be able to legally cast a vote when the chance comes.
Mayor Megan Barry, returning to her regular duties as Nashville's mayor Monday, opened up publicly about the death of her son, Max, from an apparent drug overdose and pivoted to a new role — a voice in the national opioid crisis.
The Secretary of State will proceed with the release of information from voter checklists to a presidential commission on election fraud, now that a lawsuit filed by two New Hampshire lawmakers and the ACLU to stop the release has been resolved.
Sandy Willhite doesn’t mind driving 45 minutes to the nearest shopping center. But living in Hillsboro, W.Va., became problematic when she had to travel nearly six hours for proper foot treatment.
Deona Scott was 24 and in her final semester at Charleston Southern University in South Carolina when she found out she was pregnant. She turned to Medicaid for maternity health coverage and learned about a free program for first-time mothers that could connect her with a nurse to answer questions about pregnancy and caring for her baby.
Maine has joined dozens of states in refusing to share personal voter information with President Trump's voter fraud commission. But the state regularly sells the very same data to political parties, candidates and ballot question or issue-based political action committees.
The state's lawmakers are working on ways to address its affordable housing crisis, but advocates and academics say they're not going about it in the best way.
A university-developed app is showing promise in helping people stay on the track to recovery.
The Massachusetts Division of Insurance announced today that a court has granted its request to place Minuteman Health into receivership to protect policyholders and health care providers.
The South Dakota Department of Corrections has agreed to foot the training bill for a group of Minnehaha County criminal justice officials seeking training on racial and ethic disparities in the juvenile justice system.
Starting next week, anyone convicted of felony stalking or being a habitual domestic violence offender in Colorado won’t be able to get bail before sentencing under a new law prompted by a Colorado Springs woman’s 2016 slaying.
The attack on a Bloomington Islamic center is "an act of terrorism" and a hate crime, Gov. Mark Dayton declared Sunday during a visit to show solidarity.
Fully half of the 18 members leaving the House next year jumped in order to run for governor in their states, looking to trade in legislative gridlock for executive orders — and the chance to play a dominating role in redrawing their colleagues’ districts in four years.
Two years after Congress scrapped federal formulas for fixing troubled schools, states for the most part are producing only the vaguest of plans to address persistent educational failure.
Sgt. Brad Sevier usually patrols an area of Missouri where there is one farm for every 20 residents. Now the Missouri state trooper commutes an hour to patrol the big city.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Law Department on Monday filed its much-touted lawsuit against President Donald Trump's Justice Department over its effort to withhold some grant funding from so-called sanctuary cities.
Hiring has picked up in the past two months, but it's still far behind last year's growth.
Colorado is one of the few governments to employ the data-driven approach in human services. It's helping the state tackle major problems.
All city police officers soon will be equipped with an antidote that can block the effect of opioid overdoses.
The Republican surgeon and lawmaker Knute Buehler is running for governor in 2018.
Since 2006, the nation’s largest police departments have fired at least 1,881 officers for misconduct that betrayed the public’s trust, from cheating on overtime to unjustified shooting
President Donald J. Trump said he's thrilled "Big Jim" is flipping to the Republican Party.
In another move to pressure cities into cooperating with immigration enforcement, the U.S. Department of Justice threatened Thursday to withhold crime-fighting help from four cities if they refuse to help federal agents target jail inmates suspected of being in the country illegally.
What's taking the progressive state so long to right its historical wrongs?
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was in Columbus on Wednesday to announce a new effort to crack down on doctors, pharmacists and others who are profiting by improperly prescribing and selling opioids.
Servco Pacific Inc. officials and Gov. David Ige broke ground Wednesday on the first publicly accessible hydrogen fueling station on Oahu.
Federal officials announced Tuesday that Michigan State University will receive a $14.4-million grant over four years to track children and adults exposed to lead contamination as a result of the Flint water crisis to monitor their health.
A federal appeals court in Manhattan agreed Thursday to postpone any retrial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges until the Supreme Court acts on a planned petition to further review his case.
For three years, a team of highly trained volunteers from the public and private sector has been standing by in Michigan, ready to spring into action and provide technical assistance if the state gets hit by a massive cyberattack.
To ease prison crowding and rein in corrections spending, state legislatures are trying to help ex-offenders re-enter society with the goal of ensuring they don’t return to prison.
Amid uncertainty over the future of the Affordable Care Act, California officials announced Tuesday that monthly premiums for health plans sold on the state's Obamacare exchange will rise by an average of 12.5% next year.
State workers will receive back pay for the time they missed during New Jersey's July government shutdown.
Civilian complaints against police -- public documents that have long been difficult for members of the public to access -- will be posted on a city website beginning this fall, Mayor Kenney's office announced Wednesday.
Health insurers have won powerful allies in a fight over federal subsidies that President Donald Trump has threatened to cancel for millions of people who buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act.
An internal Justice Department posting seeking lawyers for “investigations and possible litigation" relating to university affirmative action policies was a call for volunteers to work on a single complaint filed by Asian-American groups accusing Harvard University of racial bias in admissions, not a sweeping policy change, a department spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Maine will become the fourth state to make 21 the legal age to buy tobacco products after the Legislature overrode Gov. Paul LePage's veto during a long Wednesday session.
NAACP officials say their recent travel advisory for Missouri is the first that the civil rights group has issued for any state.
U.S. Rep. Diane Black, R-Tennessee, is entering the 2018 race for governor of Tennessee, ending months of speculation and adding a deep-pocketed candidate who is widely considered a front-runner to an already-crowded Republican field.
One day after getting sued by 15 states, Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt reversed his earlier decision to delay implementation of Obama-era rules reducing emissions of smog-causing air pollutants.
Public employees know what needs to be done. Managers are the key to a trusting environment that empowers workers.
One good investment year isn't enough to fix struggling systems' problems.
El Dorado Correctional Facility's staffing shortage constitutes an official emergency, the Kansas Department of Corrections said Tuesday in response to a complaint over mandatory 12-hour shifts for workers at the prison.
Republican state Rep. Geoff Diehl invoked Scott Brown's shocking Senate upset, the Red Sox' 2004 World Series victory and the Patriots' historic come-from-behind Super Bowl win to launch his longshot bid to unseat Bay State U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren last night.
Gov. Bruce Rauner on Tuesday followed through on his promise to veto a school funding bill, taking aim at hundreds of millions of dollars in help for cash-strapped Chicago Public Schools.
A bombshell report in The New York Times Tuesday night revealed that the U.S. Justice Department plans to investigate and sue colleges over their affirmative action policies in admissions.
After the Senate fell short in its effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is poised to use its regulatory powers to accomplish what lawmakers could not: shrink Medicaid.
Democratic Attorney General Hector Balderas joined with those from other states Tuesday in filing a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency and Administrator Scott Pruitt for stalling the designation of areas impacted by unhealthy levels of ground-level ozone, known as smog.
A federal court Friday struck down portions of a 2014 Alabama state law allowing court-like proceedings when a minor seeks an abortion without parental consent.
Eighteen counties in Texas, including Tarrant County, have entered into new pacts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that allow local officers to enforce federal immigration laws, officials said Monday.
Existing health insurers have agreed with the Ohio Department of Insurance to step in and serve nearly every Ohio county that otherwise would lack even a single insurer in the Obamacare market next year.
And what they want states to do while Congress tries.
Garbage workers are killed on the job more often than police or firefighters.
khalid kamau wants to prove that you don't have to be wealthy, white or in California for progressive policies to work.
A federal judge has blocked Arkansas from enforcing four new abortion restrictions, including a ban on a common second trimester procedure and a fetal remains law that opponents say would effectively require a partner’s consent before a woman could get an abortion.
North Carolina will not have special elections in 2017 in new state legislative districts, but three federal judges ordered lawmakers to draw boundaries to correct what they have ruled to be unconstitutional racial gerrymanders by Sept. 1.
One of the nation’s largest cybersecurity conferences is inviting attendees to get hands-on experience hacking a slew of voting machines, demonstrating to researchers how easy the process can be.
After Seattle voters approved first-in-the-nation taxpayer-funded "democracy vouchers" for city candidates, Honest Elections Seattle declared that the program launched this year would "get big money out of politics."
Top executives of big oil companies and other major Houston firms and organizations on Monday weighed into the political dogfight over the controversial bathroom bill, calling on Gov. Greg Abbott to block passage of the legislation that they warned will harm Texas' ability to grow its economy.
After weeks of negotiations with the International Olympic Committee, Los Angeles officials have reached a deal to host the 2028 Summer Games under terms they hope will generate hundreds of millions in savings and additional revenues.
Joe Arpaio, the Arizona lawman who once proclaimed himself "America's toughest sheriff" and was largely praised by conservatives for his hard-line policing tactics, was found guilty Monday of criminal contempt, bringing his tenure as a relentless crusader against illegal immigration to an end.
Cook County shoppers who buy sweetened beverages will be charged a penny-per-ounce tax beginning Wednesday, after a judge dismissed a lawsuit that challenged the county tax as unconstitutional.
Flying drones near prisons and jails in North Carolina is now a crime.
Estimates of jobs at risk of being automated in each region.
Call it "The Cross and Text Law."
A bill requiring employers to provide "reasonable accommodations" to pregnant employees and banning termination or hiring discrimination against women because of pregnancy has become law in Massachusetts.
So often it has been Nashville Mayor Megan Barry seeking to comfort the city during times of tragedy.
The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that publicly owned railroads are not exempt from the state's bedrock environmental law, a decision hailed by environmental watchdogs on the North Coast and opponents of California's high-speed rail project.
Alabama will end an ambitious attempt to move Medicaid from a fee-for-service model to one that rewarded health outcomes.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Friday signed the long-awaited compromise marijuana bill into law, even as he voiced his disapproval with the controversial substance that Bay State voters broadly legalized in November 2016.
Courtroom 801 is nearly empty when guards bring in Bobby Hines, hands cuffed in front of navy prison scrubs.
Police leaders across the country moved quickly to distance themselves from -- or to outright condemn -- President Trump's statements about "roughing up" people who've been arrested.
The introduction of driverless cars could effect how much money cities collect in parking, traffic citations, traffic cameras, towing fees, gasoline taxes, licensing, registration and other revenues.
After weeks of legal battles and bipartisan pushback from top election officials nationwide, President Donald Trump's voter fraud commission has renewed a message for the states: It's safe to pass along your data about voters.
New Jersey agreed to put in place new rules regarding quarantines after a nurse who was quarantined in 2014 after working in Sierra Leone during the deadly Ebola outbreak filed a lawsuit against the state, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey.
President Donald Trump isn't going to just let go of Sen. Lisa Murkowski's no vote Tuesday against debating Obamacare repeal.
Betting that thin is in — and might be the only way forward — Senate Republicans are eyeing a “skinny repeal” that rolls back an unpopular portion of the federal health law. But experts warn that the idea has been tried before, and with little success.
After more than 12 years on death row, a San Antonio man convicted in a fatal stabbing was executed Thursday night. It was Texas’ fifth execution of the year.
The country’s top immigration enforcement officer says he is looking into charging sanctuary city leaders with violating federal anti-smuggling laws because he is fed up with local officials putting their communities and his officers at risk by releasing illegal immigrants from jail.
Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer sat in a hospital room in Overland Park on July 3, waiting to see if he'd get a call because someone was a bit too careless with fireworks.
People in married, same-sex relationships are protected under the state's domestic violence law passed in 2015, the S.C. Supreme Court determined Wednesday in a split ruling.
From tight budgets to tax reform to workforce challenges, they have a lot to talk about. Fortunately, that's happening.
It's home to Red Rocks, “the only naturally occurring, acoustically perfect amphitheater in the world.”
The most sophisticated risk managers in the world invest in state and local governments. So why are Americans so hesitant?
Governments have more data than they have the manpower to handle. Some recruit volunteers to help analyze it all, but they're far from being experts in data.
Broken links, outdated information and mysterious abbreviations are just a few of the problems.
Fears are spreading that automation will be a massive job-killer. But the extent to which that could be true depends on the region and industry -- and which researcher you talk to.
