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A new report lays out several fiscal planning tools that can help officials see what's sustainable.
Low rainfall is blocking passages to the sea for California's coho salmon.
A small-town mayor deals with big-city crime.
A fierce ice storm paralyzes the South; tens of thousands lose power.
A New Jersey elections panel voted Tuesday to allow Gov. Christie's reelection campaign to use money remaining in its account to raise funds to pay the governor's legal fees.
Greg Abbott brings the Texas governor into the fold on his campaign trail.
Many states will take advantage of an Affordable Care Act initiative designed to give dual eligibles better care at a lower cost.
Governors used their annual speeches to introduce proposals on education, pension reform, raising the minimum wage and more.
The publisher of marijuana magazine High Times has sued the state of Colorado in federal court over the state's rules preventing recreational cannabis businesses from advertising in most publications.
Beginning next month, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department is piloting a new program that puts a life-saving heroin and opioid prescription drug antidote in the hands of officers.
Virginia’s General Assembly plowed through hundreds of bills Tuesday, reaching broad consensus on ethics, school testing and mental health reforms while also picking new partisan fights and bracing for a Medicaid battle that will test Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s ability to work across the aisle.
Kevin Faulconer also becomes the only Republican mayor of a top 10 U.S. city, making him one of the party’s highest-profile leaders in the state.
Gov. Jay Inslee said Tuesday he was suspending the use of the death penalty in Washington state for as long as he’s in office, announcing a move that he hopes will enable officials to “join a growing national conversation about capital punishment.”
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday called on states to repeal laws that prohibit felons from voting after their release from prison, urging changes that could allow millions more across the country to cast ballots.
The number of people in Utah, the second-fastest growing state in the country. Utah is projected to double in population in the next 35 years.
Year Texas passed its celestial state law, becoming the only U.S. state that allows residents to vote from outside planet Earth.
Matt Mead lauds employment and savings growth in his annual address.
Valerie Paschall, on a Washington, D.C., real estate blog post that looks at neighborhoods becoming popular for "Hipsters."
DPS offers incentives to make sure students show up for count day.
Some same-sex couples are being denied family policies on the insurance marketplaces.
Use the interactive map to see how each governor focused on technology in his 2014 State of the State address.
From luring immigrants to paying to paying off student loans, governors are trying everything.
Imagine spending your lunch break at a book club meeting. That’s what some Baltimore city employees do and it’s inspired changes throughout the city.
Too often, governments simply take savings from successful human services programs and inject them into the general fund. But that's a dangerous practice.
Watch and read the governor's annual address.
Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead, during his 2014 State of the State address. Read text and highlights of every governor's speech null
Settlement unanimously approved by the San Diego City Council for Irene McCormack Jackson, Mayor Bob Filner’s former communications director who accused him of repeated sexual advances and lewd comments.
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