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What seems like a simple romantic gesture is actually a major maintenance issue for bridges.
The GSA's Dan Tangherlini says government offices have to defy their reputation of being slow to change and inconvenient for the average working person.
Pot's growing legitimacy hasn't yet turned it into a political weapon for Colorado politicians.
The state is hit hard as its coal suffers a slow burn.
Staffers at the federal agency have praised a Texas Railroad Commission proposal aimed at curbing earthquakes possibly triggered by the high-pressure injection of oil and gas waste.
After less than three hours of deliberation Monday, jurors found that ex-Homestead Mayor Steven Bateman broke the law when he took a secret job as a consultant for a health-care company that needed government approval in building a clinic in the city’s downtown.
The country has a remarkable variation in surgery rates that can't be explained by differences in age, gender, race, ethnicity, insurance status or even local disease prevalence.
Is it because the area simply has more hospitals than needed?
Mark Dayton says the state will begin conducting random checks to see if counties are wrongly rejecting abuse reports and will set up a team of child protection specialists to respond rapidly to social workers struggling with difficult cases.
Google is breaking ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council, a prominent network of conservative state legislators that, among other projects, works to roll back laws that promote solar and wind power, the company's chairman said Monday.
The New Jersey Senate on Monday unanimously confirmed Jamie Fox, a former lobbyist and Democratic operative, to head the state Department of Transportation.
More than 100 people were arrested Monday after at least 1,000 green activists halted traffic in New York’s Financial District with a pointed message for the masters of Washington and Wall Street: Unrestrained capitalism is a major cause of climate change.
A proposed partnership between Hard Rock International and the impoverished Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin would funnel millions in profits back to Florida if Gov. Scott Walker approves the plan to open an $808 million casino complex in Kenosha.
Behind in the polls, Gov. Corbett went on offense Monday night in the first televised debate of the Pennsylvania governor's race, defending himself as a steady steward of taxpayers' money while characterizing Democrat Tom Wolf as an untested entity with vague promises.
A Lafayette judge Monday ruled Louisiana's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. But Attorney General Buddy Caldwell plans to appeal the decision directly to the Louisiana Supreme Court, a Caldwell spokesperson said.
Crist, a Republican turned Democrat running for his old job, is in one of the toughest gubernatorial races in the country.
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield totally dominates the insurance marketplace in two surprising states.
According to a new report, states' spending on transportation has dropped far more than the federal government's in the last decade.
As analytical tools have become more sophisticated and data sets much larger, the ability to forecast crime has grown more nuanced.
The self-proclaimed nerdy governor of Michigan has made some mistakes in the past few months that have turned his re-election race into a dead heat.
Approximate number of families in East Porterville, Calif. -- a poor, largely Hispanic town of about 7,000 residents -- whose wells have run dry due to the drought.
Advocates say the best way to prevent domestic violence is to use culturally-specific programs aimed at individual demographic groups, but states have been slow to adopt that strategy.
Casinos opened in Atlantic City in 1977 to predictions of coming wealth and jobs. Yet the city ranks near the bottom of virtually every social and economic indicator.
L.A., Houston, Philadelphia chief executives vow more action on global warming.
Mark Dayton is working hard to court union support.
The Detroit Public Schools board seeks to get rid of Jack Martin immediately.
After years of teenage inmates being slashed, stabbed and maimed, it appeared that the jail for adolescents at Rikers Island had finally been brought under control. In April 2011, a new warden and deputy warden were named, and almost immediately, official tallies of inmate fights fell by two-thirds.
It’s getting easier for parents of young children with autism to get insurers to cover a pricey treatment called applied behavioral analysis. Once kids turn 21, however, it’s a different ballgame entirely.
As he considers a second run for president, Gov. Rick Perry said Sunday that he continues to support a Texas program that proved a political liability during his failed 2012 bid.
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