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Gov. Christie is again taking steps to keep New Jersey out of a regional program enforcing regulations on carbon emissions by power plants.
The first 25 legal pot stores have received state licenses to start selling their historic wares, but just one store will open Tuesday in the state's largest city and county to serve a long line that started forming the day before.
Despite the objections of his staff, he met with an obscure circle of particularly nutty conspiracy theorists at least eight times for a total of 16 hours last year.
The state will shift its Medicaid mental health strategy to coordinate physical and mental health care for those enrolled in Medicaid.
Without federal action, states are moving in to address problems in care for the elderly and disabled.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors has launched a new campaign to save energy and cut down on air pollution. But, due to GOP opposition, they're no longer urging Congress to pass cap and trade.
John Kenney, owner of a chain of stores selling sex toys and porn videos, on why his Tysons Corner, Va., location probably won't survive the redevelopment expected to result from Metro's new Silver Line.
Garbage trucks get as little as 3 miles per gallon, making them prime targets in cities’ efforts to trim costs and curb greenhouse gas pollution.
Larry Ahlman, owner of Ahlman’s, a gun store in Morristown, Minn. Many firearms training companies across the country are now offering zombie-based tactics classes. The Centers for Disease Control and the Defense Department both use zombies in training documents and simulations.
Amber Stewart, spokeswoman for Tavern at Phipps, a restaurant in Atlanta, Ga. The business made a customer, Lewis Roberts, leave last week for violating the dress code when he came to dine wearing a green Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sleeveless T-shirt. Lewis is four years old.
The nation's largest election jurisdiction is designing a voting system unlike any around the country. The administrator in charge of county elections explains why.
For school districts in the Philadelphia region, this is one of those times when more feels like less.
State lawmakers and even the Federal Communications Commission move to take on an industry they say has long charged exorbitant calling rates to a captive audience of prison and jail inmates.
A Los Angeles Unified School District move to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour has thrust the system into the forefront of a national movement and marks another political victory for a powerful labor group -- and it's not the teachers union.
Despite ending the 2014 budget year with as much as a $40 million surplus, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin extended a statewide hiring freeze indefinitely, said state Revenue Secretary Bob Kiss.
Setting up an election-year showdown with the Legislature, Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed on Wednesday a bill that would have required a 72-hour waiting period for abortions in Missouri.
Kentucky has delayed about $185 million in federally funded road projects, including the widening of portions of Interstate 65 between Elizabethtown and Bowling Green, in anticipation of a potential cash crisis in the federal Highway Trust Fund.
Job totals have returned to pre-recession levels, but the public sector lags far behind. View data for every state.
Through a combination of coordinated care and performance pay, the state's unique Medicaid program has lowered ER visits and hospitalizations while expanding its population covered.
A new survey shows many counties don't think the law has affected them yet, but even more find the complexity from delays and changes daunting.
New technology is helping Los Angeles keep track of its architecture and landmarks.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
The school superintendent's budget will cut the tax rate while increasing Miami-Dade school spending. Overly optimistic tax-revenue projections from the property appraiser’s office might complicate things, however.
Skid row residents criticize the LAPD after the death of a mentally ill man.
Low vacancy rates at malls and other shopping centers give landlords leasing power.
The "buffer zone" was ruled unconstitutional, so Gov. Deval Patrick and Attorney General Martha Coakley announce other plans to keep protesters away from women entering abortion clinics.
Hurricane Arthur is heading for North Carolina's Outer Banks.
Three candidates running for governor show it's possible to rebound from earlier disastrous campaigns.
The New Jersey governor vetoes a gun magazine reduction bill.
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