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Changes to the appearance of marijuana edibles to make them identifiable to children will be taken up by Colorado regulators with a bill signed into law Wednesday.
Gov. Maggie Hassan signed a gas tax increase into law Tuesday, and supporters of the 4 cent hike said the money will go to a specific need.
According to new Census estimates, most cities continue to record steady population gains. View maps and updated data for hundreds of cities.
View updated population estimates for more than 700 U.S. cities.
Cost of a two-year-old, 18,000-seat high school football stadium in Allen, Texas, that is closed for the upcoming season after engineers determined the structure was "not safe for public assembly.” Taxpayers approved a bond issue to pay for the stadium in 2009.
Doctors in the state are among those charging Medicare the most for office visits.
Policymakers are looking to attract immigrants in an effort to offset some regions' population declines.
As governments learn to do new things with their data, new solutions to old problems are found -- and the public wonders if having a Big Brother might not be entirely a bad thing.
The past decade has seen a resurgence of these boosterish bucks. But do they actually redirect spending to mom-and-pop shops instead of big box stores and online retailers?
Gov. Mark Dayton pushed lawmakers this year to focus on getting rid of useless and outdated laws during the state’s short legislative session.
After the Silicon Valley city that Facebook calls home slashed its police services, Facebook put funding down for a new police officer.
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is expanding its reach beyond the states to local governments.
Since 2005, students at Auburn University have been building homes designed for just about anyone to afford.
A new study suggests dental therapists would boost dentists’ profits and help more Medicaid patients get care. So why are dentists so opposed to states’ efforts to license them?
The old approach to how humans interact with nature is getting new life in an effort to make cities more sustainable.
There’s no sure-fire way to get fiscal policy right. But there are a few simple ways to get it disastrously wrong.
Increased partisanship in state and local government has caused the organizations representing them to lose some of their influence on federal policy. Can they get it back?
Is the Ohio governor a conservative or an ideologue -- and will it even matter in November?
State colleges get 47 percent of their revenue from tuition, compared to 24 percent in 1988
In hopes of reducing the city's high crime rate, Camden, N.J., made a controversial and unprecedented move a year ago to replace its police force.
A controversial proposal in the California Legislature would cut the number of Asian students admitted to University of California schools.
Landowners near the Red River are getting nervous.
Painkillers prescribed by both well-intentioned doctors and so-called "criminals in white coats" are driving the overdose epidemic. States and cities are pioneering ways to control it.
After much pushback from unions, big cities like Detroit and Chicago are now making their retired employees get health care on the exchanges or through spouses.
In a stunning reversal, Gov. Chris Christie today announced plans to grab, over two years, $2.43 billion meant for public workers’ pensions to balance New Jersey’s ailing state budget.
Voters in two small Oregon counties on Tuesday approved controversial ballot measures to ban cultivation of genetically engineered crops within their boundaries, though one measure is vulnerable to legal challenge under a new state law.
In a primary election that highlighted a big rift in Idaho’s Republican Party, voters on Tuesday appeared to be backing two-term Gov. Butch Otter over a stiff challenge from tea party Republicans disillusioned with his leadership.
Gov. John Kitzhaber will run for what could be a history-making fourth term after winning the Democratic nomination Tuesday with virtually no opposition.
A federal judge on Tuesday struck down Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriages, a landmark ruling that appeared to clear the way for the Commonwealth to become the latest state to legalize gay marriage.
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