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Gov. John Kasich says he'll sign a controversial pullback on renewable-energy rules.
The Golden State may restrict state cooperation with federal agencies seeking data on Californians without a valid warrant.
Georgia looks to reopen some former hospitals as freestanding emergency departments.
Women in Utah aren’t as politically engaged as their peers in other states. Current and former elected officials want to change that.
The prospect of a $1.35 billion revenue shortfall has spurred state legislators into action to complete a two-year budget by July 1.
Taking an unexpected, unprecedented stand, the School Reform Commission refused Thursday night to pass a 2014-15 budget. Its officials said they would deliberately violate the City Charter by not approving a spending plan.
In a reversal of his previous rulings, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott on Thursday decided that the Texas prison system can keep secret from the public information about pharmacies that provide execution drugs.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his pediatrician wife on Thursday pledged $120 million to help schools in low-income Bay Area communities in what amounts to their biggest publicly announced donation to a local cause.
Miami-Dade County collects more than $90 million a year in hotel taxes, and state law mandates that the money can be spent only on culture, tourism and sports stadiums.
The House voted early Friday to halt federal prosecutions of medical marijuana users in states that have legalized the drug’s use with a doctor’s prescription, marking the first time a chamber of Congress has approved such a broad decriminalization.
The order delays executions scheduled for July and August while attorneys prepare filings about the state's decision to boost the dosages of its lethal injection drugs.
A new survey highlights the different approaches states take to manage long-term construction budgets.
Gov. Mary Fallin signed legislation that will set the state's oil and natural gas gross production tax for the first 36 months of production. The rate had historically been 7 percent and was recently lowered to 4 percent.
Gov. Peter Shumlin signed a bill that will offer 10 hours of early education to every 3- and 4-year-old in the state.
The president’s public retirement savings account only goes so far, so about a dozen states are looking for alternative ways to help their many constituents who have no nest egg.
On Wednesday the Senate failed to get the votes to set a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing until a study determines that it does not pose a health risk for the public. Republicans say there's already a study going on.
A tax bill includes a provision to revoke the authority of North Carolina municipalities to levy privilege taxes on businesses beginning July 1, 2015.
Mayor Michael Nutter announces the city is no longer interested in submitting a bid.
In a highly public rejection of federally mandated reforms, more than 100 Seattle police officers filed a lawsuit Wednesday asking a federal judge to block what they called "mechanical" and unrealistic use-of-force policies imposed on them under a court-ordered consent decree.
About 2,000 pensioners with a vote on Detroit's plan to cut retirement benefits received ballots with a significant error, a lawyer for retirees revealed in bankruptcy court today. The news did not please U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes, who requested the identity of the person who made the error.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Wednesday that he will sue the federal government to demand that personnel from the state's Agency for Health Care Administration's (AHCA) be permitted to inspect and regulate Florida's VA hospitals.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel insisted Wednesday that he’s trying to prevent “straw purchases” — not intimidate licensed gun owners — by requiring the owners of Chicago gun stores to videotape every weapons sale.
On May 23, 22-year-old Elliot Rodger killed six individuals by stabbing or shooting them and wounded 13 others in Isla Vista, Calif.
The cannabis on the campus of the University of Mississippi is grown, processed and sold by the federal government.
Tweet from Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who spent Memorial Day busking in Annapolis with his banjo. The governor has fronted a 7-piece Celtic rock band called “O’Malley’s March” since the late 1980s.
The IRS will start penalizing employers for sending their employees to the health exchange -- a cost-saving move that a few big cities and counties have done to their retirees.
Gallons of water California uses annually to grow almonds, which is about 10 percent of the state's total water supply.
Number of Minnesota laws repealed this year as part of Gov. Mark Dayton's "unsession" initiative to get rid of obsolete laws.
Supreme Court agrees to hear a tax case about whether some income are collected in violation of the Constitution.
The changing relationship between labor and business is important for communities hoping for a manufacturing comeback.
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