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Backers say the Water Resources Reform and Development Act will cut approval time for much-needed upgrades to ports, inland waterways and flood control projects.
New Jersey Gov. Christie had vetoed an earlier version, asking lawmakers to remove a paragraph that would have eliminated requirements placed on minors that were not also imposed on adults.
Governor Deval Patrick abruptly changed course Tuesday and said he no longer supports a controversial new tax on computer software services that has triggered a fierce backlash from the state’s technology community and spawned numerous attempts to repeal it.
The rules, released late Monday, cover everything from pot shop licensing to inventory tracking to marijuana packaging to advertising.
Richmond, California's leaders approved on Wednesday morning a plan for the city to become the first in the nation to acquire mortgages with negative equity in a bid to keep local residents in their homes.
An epic national debate over gun rights in Colorado on Tuesday saw two Democratic state senators ousted for their support for stricter laws, a "ready, aim, fired" message intended to stop other politicians for pushing for firearms restrictions.
But the authors raised alarms about a lack of housing, substance abuse and other types of reentry programs available to third-strikers released from prison.
The city’s beefed-up automated force also will nab drivers who run stop signs and encroach on pedestrian crosswalks, and truckers who drive overweight trucks through neighborhoods where they are prohibited.
Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer, two brash New Yorkers whose careers were shattered by sex scandals, sought political redemption in Tuesday’s primaries after a campaign season that played out at times like a lurid reality show.
Bill de Blasio, an activist-turned-operative and now the city’s public advocate, celebrated a remarkable come-from-behind surge, it was not clear if he had won the 40 percent needed to avoid a runoff election on Oct. 1 with William C. Thompson Jr., who finished second.
View changes in monthly job totals and unemployment rates for metro areas.
Despite the governor's best efforts, the economy is struggling and so are his approval ratings.
A new conservative report claims welfare benefits disincentivizes people to work. Federal data, however, suggests that's not the case.
Midland, Texas, ranks at or near the top of the list in every measure of recent economic and population growth. See how your area compares.
In the next few years, states and localities will face new fees and taxes on the health plans they offer. One of their biggest challenges may be keeping employees informed even though the feds are leaving them in the dark.
Jim Butkiewicz, an economics professor at the University of Delaware. The number of states that allow commercial casinos has tripled since the 1990s.
The price range for single-joint replacement surgery in California, always with the same outcome. The wide range led the state to conduct a competitive hospital-pricing experiment that's dropped the cost of health care without sacrificing quality.
New Yorkers narrowed the field of candidates vying for mayor to two (or maybe three) on Tuesday. Here's what you need to know about them and the race.
With the feds and states more marginalized than ever, cities -- and the mayors who run them -- are growing stronger.
The Minnesota Legislature approved a $4.7 million disaster-relief measure on Monday, offering reimbursement checks to counties in central and southern Minnesota battered by windstorms, floods and ice storms over the spring and summer.
Gov. Chris Christie today signed legislation requiring out-of-state law enforcement agencies to notify New Jersey authorities before conducting counter-terrorism operations within its borders.
Top District officials said Monday that they were outraged to learn about an aggressive practice of recouping city tax debts that pushed hundreds of city landowners into foreclosure.
Hawaiian Governor Neil Abercrombie called on Monday for a special legislative session next month to pass a bill that would legalize gay marriage in the strongly Democratic state that already allows same-sex civil unions.
Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders broke an impasse Monday over how to reduce prison crowding, agreeing to seek more time for that effort from federal judges but preparing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to relocate inmates if the jurists say no.
If the recalls succeed, they could have a chilling effect on lawmakers throughout the country the next time they vote on gun control measures.
The smallest amount of municipal-bond issuance in Michigan in 10 years is threatening to derail the state’s economic comeback, showing how Governor Rick Snyder underestimated the fallout from Detroit’s bankruptcy.
The federal government has denied the state's request to waive No Child Left Behind testing requirements for students in elementary and middle school, the Texas Education Agency announced Monday.
The long, hard battle over the state’s right-to-work law appears headed to the Indiana Supreme Court.
As services take over the economy, the traditional sales tax has become less helpful to state revenues. Despite several states' failed attempts to tax services, Massachusetts is trying it again.
Musician Stevie Wonder, who is blind. Some states, including Iowa and Wisconsin, have no visual restrictions for gun permits, allowing blind people to own and carry firearms.
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