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The focus of the Keystone XL debate has shifted from a fierce lobbying war in Washington to Lincoln, Nebraska, where the state Supreme Court has been asked to weigh a legal challenge to the pipeline.
San Bernardino is in another fight with Calpers that could embolden other municipalities seeking relief from crippling payments to the nation’s largest public pension system.
Dealing unions yet another legal defeat, a federal appeals court Friday upheld Gov. Scott Walker's tight limits on collective bargaining for most public employees.
Getting the public behind you is critical, but it isn't easy. Nobody did it better than Franklin D. Roosevelt.
A big prize awaits the community that can show the way toward better use of resources. It's a competition that's critical to our energy future.
Should everyone have a guaranteed minimum income even if they don’t have a job? It’s a radical idea on the Swiss ballot that also has some support in the United States.
While still recovering from genocide, Rwanda implemented a national ban on plastic bags -- a feat that only one U.S. state has accomplished.
A recent book outlines other countries’ approaches to gun control that have significantly reduced violence. Should states look to these places as a model for gun laws?
Like the U.S., China will have to change how local officials think about public finance if it wants to stop its growing debt problems.
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House was intentionally built straddling the border between Quebec and Vermont.
Nearly all Americans support organ donation, but only a third are registered donors. A study in the United Kingdom offers insight into what gets people to give up a part of themselves.
Thanks to desalination plants, Israel is no longer worried about its water supply. So why aren't there more desalination plants in the United States?
States reporting the strongest job gains last month included Florida, North Carolina and Georgia. See totals for your state.
A recap of what got done — and didn't — in the 2014 legislative session.
On almost 20 percent his trips, taxpayers covered all or part of the travel as Emanuel met with political donors or raised campaign cash.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Portland, Ore., Water Administrator David Shaff, on why the city drained 38 million gallons of water from a public reservoir after videotape surveillance caught a man urinating in it early one morning.
The pee in the Mt. Tabor Reservoir poses no health risk to the city.
Erie County, N.Y., Executive Mark Poloncarz, "pardoning" a butter lamb last week from doing duty as a spread at Easter dinner (much the way U.S. presidents pardon turkeys at Thanksgiving). Butter sculptures in the shape of lambs are a traditional part of Easter meals among Buffalo's large Polish-American population.
Number of Californians who enrolled in health coverage through the state's insurance exchange, which makes up about one-eighth of both state and federal enrollment on the exchanges.
Enrollment in private health insurance on federal and state marketplaces has surged in recent weeks and now totals 8 million, a feisty President Barack Obama said Thursday.
Colorado has created a website that provides the public with child-protection and child-abuse data for each county, making the state one of four in the nation to make such information accessible to the public.
Attorney General Beau Biden said Thursday he plans to run for governor in 2016, forgoing an expected race this fall for re-election to a third-term as the state's top law enforcement officer.
The head of a state committee responsible for doling out $25 million in Sandy energy grants has told the legal team hired by the Christie administration for the internal review of the Bridgegate scandal that his group’s original decisions were seriously flawed due to “data entry errors.”
Regardless of state laws, federal law still prohibits users of marijuana from possessing a handgun.
Here is a list of some of the winners and losers of the legislative session that concluded on Thursday.
Pennsylvania is negotiating a Medicaid expansion proposal with the federal government that, if accepted, would be the only plan yet with work provisions.
A Dutch journalist attempted to capture the essence of civil servants through portraits of local government office workers worldwide.
Editorial in the Twins Falls Times-News, questioning the success that southern Idaho will have in its attempt to become the country's center for food production. It recently attracted seven major American food manufacturing companies to set up plants.
Percentage of same-sex marriages performed in Iowa in the past year that have been between people from out of state.
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