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Agencies were quick to process claims during the shutdown, but the way states are going about getting that money back from federal employees could be a lengthy one.
The transit agency is outfitting buses and intersections with technology designed to get pedestrians to pay attention.
Many states' housing markets have lots of property where either the banks have foreclosed but the homeowners still live there or the homeowners have long left but the bank hasn’t taken over the property.
Why states need social media policies
US threatens to take $3.52 billion from California schools in testing dispute.
Schools to try to raise $61 million by selling buildings.
A consultant collected $3.4 million for advice that exposes the Wisconsin to tens of millions of dollars in potential federal claims.
Boston has the best-educated women of any major US city, and now the mayor says he's trying to make it a better place for them to earn a living. The goal: to make Boston the first city to eliminate the wage gap between men and women.
A task force convened by Miami Mayor Carlos Gimenez meets to try to solve that problem.
The Red Sox clinched the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, winning 6-1 , four games to two, wiping out 95 years of anguish.
Critics say his veto of a pig crate bill only helps with his ambitions in 2016.
For years, his Cuccinelli Compass honed a combative persona and drove up his negative poll ratings in Virginia.
Previously reluctant Democrats in places like Florida and Nebraska are challenging Republicans for House seats.
Legislatures in more than 10 states, facing growing public concern about the collection and trade of personal data, have rushed to propose a series of privacy laws,
A controversial ballot measure seeks to rein in the city’s $862 million unfunded pension liabilities but could dramatically alter its system for current and future employees and cost the city in public services.
States looking to levy “tech taxes” have had little success.
The fight to label genetically-modified foods in Washington looks much like the unsuccessful 2012 campaign in California. Will this time be different, and what will success or failure mean for the labeling movement?
HealthCare.gov is a disaster. The state-level stories, however, are quite different.
Health care law also faces plenty of low-tech troubles
Audit slams California for failing to identify mentally ill for gun database
Marijuana commercials the pot over drug safety, free speech.
Ray Halbritter, nation representative of the Oneida Indian Nation and head of the tribal delegation meeting, to NFL executives during his attempt to try to change the name of the Washington Redskins.
Number of open jobs in Massachusetts for which employers did not hire people yet the state has 250,000 residents looking for work.
Oklahoma's high court on Tuesday set the stage for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether states can restrict doctors from prescribing two drugs used to induce abortion in the early stages of pregnancy.
As formal talks open Wednesday, farm bill negotiators are looking at new alternatives to better align the House and Senate commodity titles and reduce the cost of rival revenue insurance plans to protect against shallow losses.
Trayvon Martin's mother told a panel of senators Tuesday that state "stand your ground" self-defense laws do not work and must be amended, reviving the politically charged gun control issue a year ahead of the 2014 midterm elections.
Running for New Jersey governor in 2009, Chris Christie hammered the Democratic incumbent, Jon S. Corzine, for using “one-shot gimmicks” to balance the budget, but in four years in office, Governor Christie, a Republican, has relied on the same kind of short-term strategies.
Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr’s restructuring plan was not a take-it-or-leave-it offer to creditors, he testified Monday during the city’s bankruptcy eligibility trial.
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