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Voters will decide whether this North Texas college town will become the state's first city to ban hydraulic fracturing.
Some of the opposition has also bordered on the extreme.
The House of Representatives moved Wednesday to block virtually all of the District’s gun restrictions, approving a budget amendment that would leave only federal law to regulate firearms in the nation’s capital.
In an indictment of California's death penalty, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that decades-long delays and uncertainty about whether condemned inmates will ever be executed violate the constitution's ban on cruel or unusual punishment.
MIT's Caesar McDowell argues for the wider societal benefits of taking care of those living at the margins.
Gov. Martin O'Malley advocated for thousands of children entering the U.S. illegally. At the same time he urged the White House not to put illegal immigrant children in a shelter in Westminster, Md.
The Obama administration is taking action to help state and local governments prepare for climate change and natural disasters.
Two states considered – and rejected – higher taxes on people who earned more than $1 million a year.
After court rulings muddied up the law, new federal rules seek to clarify which bodies of water have to abide by the Clean Water Act.
As the confrontation over a new contract for New York-area commuter-rail employees reminds us, it's hard to beat the pay and benefits that transit workers enjoy.
Amy Fettig, senior staff counsel on the American Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project. The ACLU has sued several jails to demand they provide federally mandated care and improve conditions for inmates with mental illnesses.
Percent of U.S. population that identifies as gay or lesbian, according to the Centers for Disease Control's first national survey on sexual orientation and health.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Tuesday that the city would help shelter immigrant children who have been detained after crossing the border and has begun talks with a federal agency about doing so.
In a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Monday, the California Department of Health Care Services said that it had reduced its application backlog to 600,000 by the start of this month.
A Tennessee woman is the first to be charged under a new state law that specifically makes it a crime to take drugs while pregnant, calling it "assault."
Cities throughout California will have to impose mandatory restrictions on outdoor watering under an emergency state rule approved Tuesday.
In a 2-1 decision Tuesday, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled — for the second time — that the University of Texas at Austin can use race as an element of its admissions decisions for candidates not admitted via the state's Top Ten Percent Law.
The House plan, which passed 367 to 55, would provide $10.8 billion to replenish, until May, the Highway Trust Fund, which is on track to run out of money Aug. 1.
Two former Utah attorneys general were arrested on bribery charges.
One analyst says the new way the credit rating agency scores local governments downplays the risk investors are taking and could encourage ratings shopping.
Politicians are complaining about the climate targets, but some say Texas utilities — companies that would be tasked with helping Texas comply with the regulations — are well-positioned to meet the potential carbon target due to investments in natural gas and renewable energy sources
In major cities there are health deserts in most poor neighborhoods.
2 Texas lawmakers offer a bipartisan bill designed to combat the border crisis.
As more Americans get insurance, there may be shortages of primary care doctors, so states are getting creative.
Cost of tickets issued to Washington, D.C., drivers who park in a way that blocks the tracks of the city's new streetcar even though it isn't in operation yet.
Republican Pat McCrory gave his strongest approval yet of the possibility of expansion, but two major obstacles stand in the way.
Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes, apologizing for bringing into his office marijuana that he bought the first day recreational marijuana was legally sold in Washington state.
Philadelphia and Denver are plotting different ways for their low-income residents to get out of poverty.
