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A new computer simulation foreshadows a future where 90 percent of vehicle traffic is eliminated.
The 2014 Deloitte-NASCIO Cybersecurity study shows with words in pictures what many state chief information security officers already know -- the landscape is fraught with evolving challenges.
A full-time team of detectives charged with making sure use of deadly force is legal will scrutinize every St. Louis city officer who kills or wounds someone with a gun.
Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott, who has mostly avoided direct confrontation with his opponent in the race for Texas governor, took a hard swing at Democratic Sen. Wendy Davis over her ethics as a lawmaker in a televised debate Tuesday night.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed two bills Tuesday written in response to gun tragedies that shook up Northern California: the Isla Vista shooting rampage by a UC Santa Barbara student and the Sonoma County sheriff's deputy shooting of a boy with a toy gun.
A U.S. district judge in Muskogee has sided with Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt against the U.S. government in the state's lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act.
The Montgomery County Council, seeking to draw more small, individual donors into campaigns and limit the influence of special-interest money, voted unanimously Tuesday to establish partial public funding for elections.
As new laws go into effect around the state this week, recreational marijuana users will have a bit less to worry about.
A Colorado Supreme Court hearing that will have major implications for marijuana and the workplace ended Tuesday with the state's most esteemed justices mostly scratching their heads.
Bell Gardens Mayor Daniel Crespo died Tuesday after his wife, Levette, shot him several times during a domestic dispute, Sheriff's Department officials told The Times.
Factoring in the lifetime cost of new construction is considered good practice in the transportation industry, but surprisingly few government agencies do it.
A quarter of the nation's hospitals are exempt from penalties, quality bonuses and other payment reforms.
Last week, faith-based and congressional leaders from Arizona, Illinois and Pennsylvania announced a multistate sanctuary movement patterned off a similar effort that took place in the 1980s. Texas could be next.
The drought means many communities have, since January, cycled onto and off of a list of "critical water systems" that state officials say could run dry within 60 days.
Some 35 states allow voters to fill out ballots at polling stations or mail them prior to Election Day. Here's how that changes campaigns.
The state has spent $209 million already and will $70 million in reserve funding.
DPS board voted to get rid of Jack Martin for the third time, but this vote coincided with what many members believe to be his last day in office under law.
A 40-year-old flat-roof rule was meant to ensure fire safety, but no other large city has such a rule.
The city has paid about $5.7 million since 2011 over lawsuits claiming that police officers brazenly beat up alleged suspects. One hidden cost: The perception that officers are violent can poison the relationship between residents and police.
Drought-conscious residents are curtailing residential water use statewide. State government agencies? Not so much.
Rapper Snoop Dogg, promising to perform a concert in Alaska if voters in the state approve a ballot measure in November to legalize the recreational use of marijuana.
Johnny Barnes, former head of the ACLU of Washington, D.C., who argues D.C. residents acquiesced to their non-statehood status in 1801 to benefit from having federal agencies located in the District. But many have now moved to suburbs, so Barnes plans to sue to ensure that federal agencies don't move out of the city unless it gets statehood.
Los Angeles would be the first city offering people rides in self-driving cars, if Mayor Eric Garcetti fulfills one of his dreams.
Seeing no end to gridlock in Congress, national environmental groups are trying a new strategy for winning battles on climate change and green power: pouring record amounts of money into legislative races in a handful of states.
The White House on Monday announced $450 million in grants to 270 community colleges that are working with employers to set up training programs for in-demand jobs in fields such as information technology, health care, energy and advanced manufacturing.
The Supreme Court ordered a halt Monday to early voting in Ohio that was scheduled to begin this week, clearing the way for the state to close polls on the Sunday before Election Day, when African American turnout has been heaviest.
Lieutenant governor candidates Dan Patrick and Leticia Van de Putte clashed on education Monday in their only scheduled debate, with Patrick defending lawmakers' deep cuts to schools three years ago while Van de Putte said his tightfisted ways have hurt Texas students.
Thousands of people in California are facing a Sept. 30 deadline to prove they are in the country legally, as required to receive coverage through insurance exchanges. It's not easy to do.
Renters across the country are struggling as their incomes fail to keep up with escalating housing costs.
Number of days the city of Lancaster, Pa., spent as capital of the United States. On September 27, 1777 delegates of the Continental Congress were forced to flee Philadelphia. Delegates met in the county courthouse for several hours, and then moved their capital again, to York, Pa.
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