News
For the 8 million people who managed to sign up for coverage this year, their policies will probably automatically renew. But that may not be the best choice.
Wilson, N.C., and Chattanooga, Tenn., want the FCC to axe restrictions on expanding municipal broadband networks.
This week's roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
A lot of film and TV projects took their business out of state. The vast majority opt to shoot in states where tax credits were available.
Exxon's move could be the first major U.S. refinery investment since the sudden rise of shale production opened up a new era of bumper profits for the sector.
Many of the elements of Ryan's plan lean heavily on consolidating federal social-welfare programs and shifting administrative control to the states.
Unions are putting teachers on the streets — for votes.
Police are still deciding whether to arrest an 80-year-old man who shot a fleeing, unarmed burglar despite her telling him she was pregnant.
Places like Pittsburgh and Cleveland are drawing on their hard-knocks pasts to draw people.
This southern community that prides itself on its hospitality revealed a full-throated, bared-teeth rage with which not everyone is comfortable or proud.
Community leaders have begun asking whether focusing police officers intently on petty offenses makes sense in a city that is much safer than it was in the 1990s.
The botched execution of Joseph Woo on Wednesday raised questions on the drugs used and the length of the process.
Three groups filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday accusing Tennessee officials of depriving thousands of people of Medicaid coverage “to score political points.”
Craig Stuart-Paul, chief executive of Maryland-based Fiberight, described how the company’s demonstration plant, that turns municipal solid waste into ethanol, biogas or compressed natural gas through a distillation process, could be copied in Maine.
After a five-year break, the state Department of Health and Human Services plans once again to require those between 18 and 49 years old without dependents to work 20 hours a week or volunteer a certain number of hours to get benefits.
A growing number of states are enacting laws that grant loved ones the right to access your digital information when you die.
States and cities get creative about recycling water, since they've run out of other options.
Amid extreme drought, California sees a big jump in brush fires this year.
Gov. Brown leads Kashkari 52 to 33 percent among likely voters, according to a new poll.
The largest public pension fund in the U.S., Calpers, is expected to cut its hedge-fund investments this year by 40%. Other public pensions also are cutting or reconsidering investments in hedge funds.
Payday loans have brought jobs and revenue, but tribal leaders say a government crackdown is jeopardizing their business.
Mark Schauer voted in the 2012 Republican presidential primary, likely for Rick Santorum, in order to extend the Republican nominating process and strengthen President Barack Obama.
Three teenagers have been arrested in killings that the police said were staggering in their brutality.
Fights over track elevation and the threat of money drying up nearly killed the project, opening Saturday.
Dominion Resources gains another approval needed from the state to move ahead with a liquefied natural gas export facility facility in Calvert.
NYC's mayor asks the city's cultural groups to help make the proposed city card, designed for those who don't have driver's licenses or official identification, something that offers benefits, like memberships or discounted tickets, to cardholders.
Joseph Wood repeatedly gasped for one hour and 40 minutes on Wednesday before dying.
Data shows the year of construction for each city's housing stock.
As a new book illustrates, the promised benefits rarely materialize.
It's up to voters in November to decide whether the state will change the way it funds public college scholarships.
Most Read
