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Issues over insurance, enforcement and taxation spur supervisors to revise short-term rental legislation proposed.
El Dorado County's King Fire has now burned through extensive public timber land, private timberland and watershed.
Government has a big role to play as we work to develop an intelligent, multimodal transportation system.
A rule that would have prohibited doctors from prescribing abortion pills by videoconferencing has been blocked by the Iowa Supreme Court in a last-minute decision hailed as a victory by pro-abortion rights advocates.
Dozens of police chiefs meeting in Chicago this week said a notorious fatal police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri in August had been a defining moment for law enforcement and pledged greater transparency over such incidents.
For the first time in 36 years, Ohioans won't get a formal debate between their candidates for governor.
At a heated Congressional hearing Wednesday, two doctors said patient deaths can be linked to delays in care at VA medical centers, a starkly different view than the one painted by an increasingly controversial inspector general's report.
Vermont’s largest city has a new success to add to its list of socially conscious achievements: 100 percent of its electricity now comes from renewable sources such as wind, water, and biomass.
The National Rifle Association has reserved $11.4 million for its initial fall advertising campaign and will begin airing its first TV commercials Wednesday in three Senate races crucial to determining which party controls the chamber next year.
The California city’s November election will shed light on whether Democrats can risk the political fallout of cutting a prized union benefit to protect basic city services.
While more than a dozen states are fighting the new federal rules to reduce carbon emissions, many officials fear that ignoring them would be far worse.
What happens in Memphis will reveal the power -- and limits -- of education reform.
Think the cost overruns on the Big Dig were bad? The hole just keeps getting deeper for the Boston area's transit agency.
Keith Parker took over one of the most beleaguered and least loved transit systems in America -- and almost instantly reversed its course.
American politics is a forest filled with intricate family trees, and many offices seem almost hereditary.
In an effort to offer residents cheaper fuel, Somerset, Ky., opened what’s likely the nation’s first city-run retail gas station this summer.
When a North Carolina mayor walked 273 miles to Washington, D.C., this summer, he was just the latest in a long line of politicians to take an attention-seeking stroll.
Nebraska tried something similar to Paul Ryan’s proposal for fighting poverty for a decade. There are lessons to be learned.
National groups are realizing that the best way to influence policy isn't necessarily in gridlocked Washington anymore.
About half of states admit to holding mentally ill patients in emergency rooms until beds become available in mental health facilities -- a practice Washington state ruled unconstitutional.
The state's undocumented immigrant ID law has been hobbled by low estimates.
As Philadelphia public schools opened last week in the face of an $81 million deficit and the prospect of 1,000 layoffs, a digital marketing start-up tried to get businesses to donate paper.
Midland, Texas, will launch a pilot program in January for a special high school for students who want to work in the oil industry.
With backing by the NRA, making hunting a constitutionally protected right has become increasingly popular in the past decade. The latest battlegrounds are Alabama and Mississippi.
In many states, determining control of their top courts has resulted in political and ideological battles.
The Louisiana governor's plan calls for opening more off-shore waters to drilling. He also opposes measures to reduce the amount of coal or other fossil fuels that the U.S. consumes.
A week before world leaders will discuss how to slow the increase of dangerous gases in the atmosphere, the Obama administration announced that it has reached agreements with a range of major companies to voluntarily phase out a class of chemicals, used in refrigerators and air conditioners, and seen as contributors to global warming.
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Tuesday enacting sweeping new regulations on groundwater pumping in California, making the state the last in the West to regulate the practice.
In August, State Police arrested a man in Roane County after they said they found improvised explosives, AK-47 style rifles and about 30 live chickens in his wrecked SUV at 3:30 a.m. The man, Seth Grim, 21, allegedly told police that he was a "sovereign citizen," a group that rejects taxes and local, state and federal laws.
To discourage states from passing mandates that go beyond essential health benefits requirements, the law requires states, not insurers, to cover the cost of mandates passed after 2011 that apply to individual and small group plans sold on or off the state health insurance marketplaces. If a mandate increases a plan’s premium, states will be on the hook for the additional premium cost that’s attributable to the mandate.
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