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The number of states that increased the minimum wage on Jan. 1. About 2.5 million workers will receive higher wages as a result.
Due to HealthCare.gov rollout woes, Scott Walker will seek changes to state policy.
Polly Trottenberg, a higher-up at the U.S. Department of Transportation, takes over an office that's been redefined in recent years.
Chrissy Robinson, one of the first customers in line at one of Colorado's new stores that opened Jan. 1 and sells marijuana to anyone at least 21 years old.
The number of fatal parade accidents in the United States over the past three years. A recent report found that governments often lack adequate planning procedures and clear rules for parades.
Homicides dropped 18 percent in Chicago last year and crime overall was down 16 percent, according to statistics released by the police department.
The state of Utah asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday afternoon to put same-sex marriages in Utah on hold while it appeals a lower court ruling in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Bill de Blasio, whose fiery populism propelled his rise from obscure neighborhood official to the 109th mayor of New York, was sworn into office on Wednesday.
Legal experts said they could not recall the last time a New Jersey governor refused to defend a gun control law.
In a historic swirl of commerce and cannabis, the world's first stores licensed to sell marijuana legally to anyone 21 or older opened in Colorado on Wednesday.
A federal judge has ruled that a 2011 law requiring welfare applicants to undergo drug tests is unconstitutional, striking a blow to Gov. Rick Scott's administration over the controversial tests.
A new report provides a checklist of a dozen issues that need to be addressed when governments contract for cloud computing services.
Giving public workers input into their managers' performance appraisals would be a big step toward the goal of employee engagement.
Some governments lack clear planning procedures and rules for parades. Read how localities can better prepare, along with a summary of recent parade accidents.
Louisiana's lieutenant governor, Jay Dardenne, promising that the state will find a way to keep 'Duck Dynasty' on the air if the Robertson family and A&E don't reach an agreement to keep the show on television.
After years of declining revenue, the money began slowly tricking back in for states and localities in 2013. But there still was still a huge mess left to clean up.
Increase in funding for California schools provided by Proposition 30, a temporary income and sales tax increase.
Fewer stops can reduce travel times and operating costs, researchers say.
State Department of Transportation has awarded the final contract for improvements on roads impacted by the energy sector.
After several lean years, thousands of California teachers are winning pay hikes, bonuses and other benefits in contract negotiations.
Obamacare's signup deadline on Monday has its exceptions.
Jay Dardenne says he could help connect the Robertson family with new producers if they cannot reach agreement with the A&E cable TV network.
Colorado resorts brace for marijuana tourism
The government said it lacked funds to pay the Indians’ support costs for running hospitals themselves.
Ravenous insects are devouring some of the nation’s most popular Christmas trees, and there’s no stopping them in the wild.
Politics weren’t a factor in the selection of CGI Federal to build the health insurance Web site, but neither were the company’s links to a series of troubled federal projects more than a decade earlier.
Several states have yet to make a decisive choice on Medicaid expansion, and 2014 could be their year.
The state's high court decided a move by a little-known state panel to accept federal expansion money was legal.
Amount in Federal Transit Administration grant money Cincinnati would have lost if it shut down its streetcar construction project, which the mayor had promised to do in his campaign for office.
Major Lou Caputo, of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, who wears a Grinch costume and issues onions to speeders during the holiday season instead of traffic tickets.
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