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Gov. Jay Nixon signed legislation Wednesday that will set Missouri's presidential primary on March 15 instead of Feb. 2.
On Thursday, Richard D. Holcomb, commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, sent a cease and desist letter to both companies.
Two Republican governors, Mary Fallin of Oklahoma and Nikki Haley of South Carolina, have just signed laws pulling their states out of the Common Core State Standards initiative amid growing anti-Core sentiment around the country.
Kevin Roose, reacting to the news that uses of the Uber car share themselves have ratings, based on their ratings of drivers. Users who give low average ratings to drivers receive slower responses when they call for cars. Roose apparently now plans to give only positive reviews to his drivers.
Gregory Minchak, spokesman for the National League of Cities, on the limited role of the NLC.
Miles of bike facilities that Washington, D.C., plans to have by 2040, according to MoveDC, the city’s first comprehensive transportation guide in two decades.
A study finds that more corrupt states spend more money on construction, highways and police protections and less on health, education and other public services.
Some cities think the key to getting citizens to trust in and see the value of government again is developing civic technology that's proven to work.
Gov. Paul LePage seeks signs a letter to Obama with five other Republican governors, requesting unprecedented access because of the scandal over wait lists for medical care.
State Board of Ed approves regulations for hiring teachers with subject expertise but no education degree.
Gov. Pat McCrory signs energy bill for natural gas exploration to begin in 2015.
Despite Miami-Dade saying UberX and Lyft cars are outside the law it won’t be easy for the county to eliminate them from being used in town.
Finally, observers have clear performance data for comparing cities.
Long-shot efforts by a trio of remote Northern California counties to begin the process of seceding from the most populous U.S. state failed on Tuesday in two referendums and succeeded in one.
Medicaid enrollment surged by more than 1 million people in April, bringing the total growth in the state-federal health insurance program for the poor since September to about 6 million, the Obama administration said Wednesday.
Licensing regulations for medical marijuana establishments were determined Wednesday by the Las Vegas City Council.
The state attorney general's office says Coloradans do not have a right to use marijuana off the job, siding with a satellite television company in its firing of a medical-marijuana patient.
The New Jersey State Board of Education voted to return partial control of their districts to the school boards in Newark and Paterson, two districts under state control.
Long before President Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency unveiled its major climate rule for power plants this week, legislators around the country were working to undercut it with a big money conservative group nudging them along.
The US Supreme Court declined Wednesday to issue a stay blocking a recent ruling by a federal judge invalidating a ban on same-sex marriages in Oregon.
GlaxoSmithKline PLC will pay $105 million to dozens of states to settle allegations that it unlawfully marketed its asthma drug Advair and the antidepressants Paxil and Wellbutrin.
All but nine states have decreased the number of "structurally deficient" bridges since the fatal Minneapolis bridge collapse in 2007. But experts warn that if Congress doesn't find the money to continue or increase current funding levels, the number of troubled bridges could start climbing again.
For a few weeks this month, Uber users can get service around Boston by boat.
Mike Rounds and Gov. Dennis Daugaard scored Republican primary election wins Tuesday.
The Central Conference of American Rabbis join the Alliance of Baptists and the United Church of Christ in challenging the state ban on same sex marriage. The suit is the nation's first faith-based challenge to same-sex marriage bans.
View and compare bridge inspection data by state.
Implementing a state law requiring drug testing on July 1 would violate federal rules, the regional administrator of the federal Food and Nutrition Service warned in a letter to Georgia's chief of human services.
A company called Urban Engines works with city transit authorities to figure out better ways to use existing infrastructure and to craft incentives to change people’s transportation behaviors and reduce congestion.
New Jersey governor touts Camden policing as a good model.
The sticker price for the 100 most common treatments and procedures for Medicare inpatients in 2011 varied dramatically among hospitals across the country, and even across towns.
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