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California is being hit hard with a whooping cough epidemic, according to the state's public health department, with 800 cases reported in the past two weeks alone.
President Obama signed an executive order Saturday evening, appointing an emergency board to mediate the SEPTA labor dispute, thus averting a lengthy strike. All 13 SEPTA Regional Rail lines should be back to normal operating schedules Sunday morning, transit agency spokeswoman Jerri Williams said.
The North Carolina Supreme Court has struck down the state's first local ordinance banning people from using cellphones while driving.
Flush with optimism from California's resurgent economy, lawmakers approved a $156.4-billion state budget that expands preschool for children from poor families, increases welfare payments and provides critical funding for building the nation's first bullet train.
A panel of Kansas judges ruled Wednesday that a new education funding law complies with a state Supreme Court mandate to boost aid to poor public schools, but they didn’t narrow the scope of a lawsuit over whether the state is providing enough aid overall.
The legislature passed the labeling law in April, and Gov. Peter Shumlin signed the bill in May.
One of the most historic U.S. journalism sites will vanish after a Virginia county board voted to demolish the building and parking garage central to the Watergate political scandal of the 1970s.
LGBT-rights group Equality Florida endorses Democrat Charlie Crist for governor, despite history as governor.
Gov. Jay Inslee wants to review risks from trains and barges carrying oil.
By making all of its data easily and quickly available across agencies, the state stands to save money and improve services.
Gov. Nathan Deal ousts the leader of the Division of Family and Children Services and announces he will change the agency's approach.
One way innovative cities helped curb homelessness? Parking meters.
Percent of voters who chose "none of these candidates" in Nevada's Democratic gubernatorial primary. Even though "no one" actually finished first, the runner-up, Robert Goodman, will face the state's Republican governor in the general election.
Linda, keeper of records at the Polk County, Fla., Sheriff's Office, confirming the name of the woman recently arrested for shooting a missile into an automobile was Crystal Metheney.
But it's unclear whether the savings will be enough to help hospitals offset cuts from the Affordable Care Act.
Two years ago, Congress cut local leaders' role in deciding how federal money should be spent.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
The New Jersey governor's "Tonight Show" appearance included a performance showing "The Evolution of Dad Dancing."
California's controversial bullet train would receive hundreds of millions of dollars in the coming year under a budget deal reached by Gov. Jerry Brown and lawmakers Thursday, a critical step toward beginning construction as the project continues to face legal and political challenges.
The Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Orlando and other cities did not have the authority to set up an automated camera system to catch red-light runners and ticket them.
Michigan lawmakers adjourned Thursday without the big fix for roads that Gov. Rick Snyder has advocated for more than two years and motorists are clamoring for as they traverse the state's pothole-scarred roads.
Gov. Bobby Jindal signed legislation Thursday that is all but guaranteed to close the only abortion clinics in New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday announced that the state has reached agreements with health facilities to provide care for veterans who cannot get timely treatment from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Long among the most powerful forces in American politics, the unions are contending with falling revenue and declining membership, damaging court cases, the defection of once-loyal Democratic allies — and a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign portraying them as greedy and selfish.
The state has hired a health technology firm for $5.69 million.
Three L.A. City Council members back new rules for car companies like Lyft and Uber,
The Minnesota Supreme Court upholds the sentences in a 1992 juvenile murder case, saying that a 2012 Supreme Court decision holding that juvenile life sentences were "cruel and unusual" does not retroactively.
Outside money is pouring into state gubernatorial campaigns.
Federally funded projects in several states and localities are testing ways to use convenience and peer pressure to get prison inmates and people who owe child support to make better decisions.
Michigan to offer Medicaid recipients lower premiums and cost sharing if they take "personal responsibility" and do a health risk assessment with their doctor every year and to commit to improve their health.
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