Many states ended fiscal year 2013 with a surplus, but experts warn that it doesn’t mean their financial woes are over.

At least three states already allow and more are considering allowing localities to charge citizens for what can be dangerous and expensive rescues that occur when recklessness (like kayaking during a flood) is involved.

The state is making an unprecedented effort to cut health costs by instituting performance pay into its health-care industry and paying doctors based on quality instead of quantity.

Doctors can write a parks prescription for patients that gives free admission to one of South Carolina’s 30 state parks.

The wealthy Virginia county outside Washington, D.C., has been free of the nasty political environment home to its neighbors – until now. Causing the controversy is a proposed streetcar, which nearly a dozen cities are building.