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Sharp increases in U.S. oil production has caused safety problems transporting the liquid. Now states are trying to fix the problem.
A cash-strapped Kashkari gets creative in California governor's race.
Changing sea chemistry will hit Alaska communities hard, a study says.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is taking steps to thwart GWB jumpers.
See a map of where the most pedestrian fatalities are occurring in poorer neighborhoods.
In at least five gubernatorial races this fall, the outcome may depend on how well a third-party candidate fares.
Robert Jones, Imperial Klaliff of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, on his group's improbable efforts to recruit black people by focusing on illegal immigration as a common enemy.
Square feet of municipal convention center "exhibition space" in the United States, which is nearly double the amount in 1989.
Approximate fraction of American adults with debts that have been sent to collections agencies.
Denise Belser, a program manager at the National League of Cities, which is working with five cities to use missed utility payments as a way of identifying people in financial distress who need help.
A federal judge Tuesday put on hold the decision he issued over the weekend banning enforcement of a key law Washington, D.C. police and federal law enforcement officials use to control the possession of handguns in the nation's capital.
Mississippi is well-prepared to meet new federal nutrition regulations regarding school lunches, a state education department official said Wednesday.
State Senate President Stephen Sweeney said Gov. Chris Christie's push for new pension cutbacks is part of his strategy to run for president in 2016.
Amid international attention to Detroit's policy of cracking down on water customers with overdue bills, the city's emergency manager this morning granted fuller authority to Mayor Mike Duggan to manage the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department.
After a series of setbacks, abortion rights advocates claimed a small victory Tuesday after a federal appeals court blocked a law that would have closed the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi.
The Pennsylvania State Police, one of the nation's largest forces, is faced with ending the physical fitness tests it gives to applicants for state trooper positions or defending in court a practice that the federal government says illegally discriminates against women.
It's worse in the South.
A study indicates that moving children from CHIP to ACA Exchange plans would increase costs, sometimes 10-fold.
City Accelerator finalists have commonalities in the problems they face and their proposed solutions.
"Identity proofing" makes it much harder for potential fraudsters to collect money.
N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper, who will no longer defend his state's gay marriage ban after the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Virginia's ban unconstitutional on Monday.
Percent increase in pickup truck sales between 2009 and 2013, which is generally seen as an indication that an economy is improving.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is holding public hearings on its new rules regulating power plants, and both sides of the debate are coming out in full force.
There's a reason the public sector is increasingly turning to competitions for innovative solutions. They work.
Police, firefighters and other emergency responders occupy a special position of trust in their communities. They need to always be aware of the impact of their behavior.
Let’s realize that public breast feeding is going to be normal, says the organizer.
The event, which usually takes place over Labor Day weekend, just requires too much water, said the president of the Sacramento Convention & Visitors Bureau.
That's a problem for utility companies, which typically need to expand sales volume by 1 percent or more a year just to maintain their networks of power plants, transmission lines and substations.
Is Washington, D.C., in the midst of a post-shutdown baby boom?
New Silver Line ran fine, but the changed bus plan that debuted the same day was more trouble for riders.
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