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The U.S. Supreme Court sent the case back to the lower court in June, instructing them to apply strict scrutiny — a very high level of review — to the university’s argument for considering the race of some applicants.
Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio, an ardent critic of the mayor’s policies has pledged to do away with the letter grades.
Boeing machinists in the Northwest rejected a contentious contract proposal Wednesday that would have exchanged concessions for decades of secure jobs.
Detroit City Council members and Mayor Dave Bing were stunned to learn Wednesday that the state is putting a $5-million cap on what it will pay to help restructure city government, even as contracts for law firms and consultants exceed $62 million.
The governor's action is unprecedented in the nation in the case of an imminent execution, a death-penalty expert said.
Only 14 states are running their own insurance marketplaces, but they account for three-quarters of total sign-ups in the first month.
Total number of people who signed up for health insurance in October using the federal exchange on HealthCare.gov.
Pennsylvania city’s law enforcement can't ignore links between crime and social media.
Cities turn to streetcars to spur economic development.
The revised plan leaves no one happy.
Number of full-time U.S. Postal Service employees, down from almost 800,000 in 2000.
Tweet from @twentypoundcarp, conceding the race in his write-in campaign for a seat on the City Council of Ann Arbor, Mich.
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy releases its annual scorecard that ranks the states based on their energy efficiency performance.
States will have a lot of leeway in determining exactly what dental services are offered, and they could be quite limited.
The former Republican's team for his race for Florida governor looks a lot like President Obama's campaign staff in the state.
After months of delays, the Chicago Infrastructure Trust voted Tuesday to approve its first project, a plan that would tap a private investor to pay for energy efficiency improvements in 75 city buildings.
The state Senate passed a bill Tuesday legalizing gay marriage, putting Hawaii a signature away from becoming a same-sex wedding destination.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to review an Oklahoma abortion case, effectively upholding a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court that a state law requiring an ultrasound test and a doctor's narration was an unconstitutional burden on a woman seeking to terminate a pregnancy.
A resort town in California warned on Tuesday that it will run out of money by March due to burdensome salary and pension costs and could join other U.S. cities that have recently filed for bankruptcy protection.
The mayors of 10 New Jersey cities today released a letter in support of the Dream Act, which would allow students who entered the country illegally to receive in-state tuition and scholarships at state schools.
From the first day her husband, a Democrat, began his third term as governor in 2011, Ms. Gust Brown has occupied an office just around the corner from his.
Despite its new deal with Amazon, it's unlikely the Postal Service will start to reverse years of workforce cuts. View data showing numbers of postal employees in each state.
Alabama state officials have agreed to a settlement that guts most of the controversial provisions in the toughest anti-immigration law in the country.
An Oakland, Calif., charter school will be among the first in the U.S. to use the new technology.
Frustrated with his inability to browse health insurance plans through his state's portal, one programmer gathered his team and built a website that does what HealthCare.gov should have done to begin with.
Ronald Kirby, 69, oversaw transportation planning at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.
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