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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is making states put plans in place that would reduce carbon emissions to 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.
The campus of the University of Mississippi is home the only source of pot allowed for researchers who want to conduct FDA-approved tests on using marijuana for medical purposes.
A stalker charge turns the Oregon Senate race into a fight on gender politics.
Innovative funding solutions can be born from bad times.
State legislatures have seen dozens of bills related to election reform so far in 2014. And unlike recent years, most of them are trying to make it easier to vote.
Reporter Colby Itkowitz, on Twenty20, a Washington, D.C., rock band created by the sons of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, U.S. Trade Representative Mike Froman, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan and former Obama campaign adviser Patti Solis Doyle.
Residents of this small mountain town in northeastern California will vote on Tuesday, as they have religiously -- and at uncommonly high rates -- for many years.
The state of Mississippi tomorrow will use its new voter ID law for the first time, culminating a long political fight in a state with a troubled past of voting-rights suppression.
The Republican governors of Iowa and Texas, respectively, have a documented affection for one another and shared interest in conservative policies for job growth.
A small army of never-say-die parents and children -- many in wheelchairs -- impacted by epilepsy flooded the Capitol rotunda Friday to watch Gov. Terry Branstad sign a law giving them access to relief-providing cannabis oil that they didn't think was possible several months ago.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear appeals in an Alabama redistricting challenge, but tomorrow's Democratic and Republican primaries will continue as scheduled.
Preparing for Minnesota's first major contested Republican primary in two decades, a county commissioner wins the party's endorsement.
The department kept child deaths off the books. Was it deliberate or an accident?
Some California counties have stopped honoring requests from immigration agents to hold potentially deportable inmates beyond their jail terms.
Eight Governors Sign and agreement that could boost deployment of charging stations and other EV infrastructure.
A conservative group trying to force a referendum on a transgender rights law scheduled to take effect this fall did not get the required signatures needed to bring the issue to a vote.
Creating the state of California took a revolt that led to the short-lived Bear Republic, a war with Mexico, and various international treaties. Now, some northern natives hope to take it apart, starting with a couple of ballot initiatives.
House Minority Leader Paul Davis on Thursday officially entered the race to challenge Kansas Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, touching off statements from both camps that frame the debate over the next seven months.
As Gov. Jan Brewer and lawmakers celebrated creation of a new state agency to protect children, national child-welfare experts said that the early steps look promising but that it will be months before officials know if they have truly fixed a system that failed to investigate thousands of reports of child abuse and neglect in recent years.
The Silicon Valley Cannabis Coalition will be providing free weed to members who vote in the Tuesday election. The coalition said it will announce a list of clubs participating in the "Weed for Votes" program Monday; members must show proof with an "I Voted" sticker or ballot stub.
Gov. Mike Pence has told the U.S. attorney general that Indiana won’t comply with federal prison rape standards because they are too costly.
Boom is always better than bust, but explosive growth presents its own set of formidable challenges.
Gov. Jerry Brown is working hard to break the state's cycle of boom and bust. The voters seem to like his ideas.
The new National Resource Network aims to help local governments find the experts and information they need.
Governors have a major role to play in integrating two policy and regulatory systems that need to work together.
Percent of e-cigarette nicotine poisoning cases in Oklahoma this year that have involved children under the age of six.
This week's roundup of money (and other) news that governments can use.
A few states want to make experimental drugs available to terminally ill people without the FDA's approval -- an idea popularized by the movie "Dallas Buyers Club." Critics say the laws could be harmful to public health.
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