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Arizona border residents join together to tackle migrant aid issues.
Maximum height of a building in Washington, D.C., which is equivalent to about 13 stories. Recently though, there's been debate over eliminating the height limit.
Gene Mueller, manager of regional animal services for King County, Wash., on cutting spending for animal shelters.
Expanded Medicaid’s fine print holds a nasty surprise in Washington State: After you’re dead, your estate can be billed for ordinary health-care expenses.
N.J. lawmakers want to study putting casino in the Meadowlands.
Regional water deal elusive for Detroit emergency manager
Under the House-passed budget bill, federal civilian employees will help fund the government.
Proposals are afoot to lift height restrictions in the District of Columbia.
For decades, Las Vegas has billed itself as the marriage capital of the world.Now, Vegas has become a popular destination for a new type of party celebrating a different milestone: a divorce.
It's a question that arises frequently and generates heated conversation. New ranking by website says the title belongs to Louisiana.
Learning to live with e-books and e-marketers, indies prove there’s still a place for real stores.
The defiance shown by some sheriffs is raising questions about whether tougher rules enacted this year after mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut work areas where gun ownership is common.
Sometimes a major initiative can never recover from a poor launch. To maximize the chances of success, it's critical to avoid the "Overconfidence Trap."
The Securities and Exchange Commission is making it clear: Government leaders who issue misleading financial information are putting themselves at risk.
The botched rollout of the federal health exchange underlines the need for changes in how governments at all levels handle major technology projects.
Wielding her influential blog as a weapon, this 75-year-old activist has created a powerful network united by revulsion against top-down, elite policymaking.
A Year After Sandy Hook Shootings, Many States Have Made Changes
Experts raise new doubts about essential Bay Bridge rods
Wisconsin lawmakers urged to require outside agencies to probe officer-involved deaths
Rebecca Wallace, staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, on a decision by Colorado's interim director of prisons to no longer send prisoners with major mental illness to solitary confinement.
Current cap on Passenger Facility Charges for flights, which airport officials said they want Congress to raise by $4 to pay for airport improvements.
A dispute this fall between the city of Bakersfield and Kern County in California over animal shelter costs shows just how inter-local agreements can easily fall apart without proper nurturing.
Colorado prison wardens can no longer send prisoners with major mental illness to solitary confinement, according to a memo distributed Thursday that solidifies state policy years in the making.
Public support for labor unions has plunged in California, with more voters for the first time saying they do more harm than good, according to a new Field Poll.
A Los Angeles employee relations officer delivered a stinging defeat to the city's labor leaders Thursday, saying that they failed to meet a procedural deadline for challenging a hotly contested rollback in public employee pension benefits.
MNsure Director April Todd-Malmlov took a two-week trip to Costa Rica around Thanksgiving, leaving behind a state health insurance exchange plagued by glitches and under daily fire from critics.
The battle over Medicaid expansion in Arizona moves to the courtroom today, less than three weeks before the expanded program is scheduled to take effect.
Reports of "Knockout Game" attacks — in which someone sneaks up to a random person and tries to knock them unconscious with one blow to the head — have proliferated across the U.S. in recent months.
Unmanned aircraft are coming, and they will raise a lot of issues for local governments to sort out.
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