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The number of states that expect drops in general fund revenue in fiscal year 2014, according to a new National Conference of State Legislatures report.
California Gov. Jerry Brown's explanation for vetoing a bill that would have allowed women to sell their eggs for medical research.
As part of a pilot program, bus riders get credits that they can put toward tolls.
We examine proposals still brewing in legislatures, how already-enacted reforms are playing out, and the model based on one of the world's strongest pension systems that a Canadian province is using to keep costs under control.
Gov. Mark Dayton delivered an ultimatum to GOP legislators Tuesday: He won’t call a special session unless they agree to limit its scope to approving disaster relief and repealing a much-criticized tax on farm machinery repairs.
The New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club is accusing the Christie administration of ignoring and hiding its own report on climate change.
The competition for students has heated up in the past decade with Detroit parents enrolling in suburban districts that offer school choice programs while more charter schools offer more options.
New Jersey voters are about to witness a two-month sprint for an open U.S. Senate seat that will feature a heavily favored national media darling fending off a conservative provocateur with sharp barbs and little to lose.
Oklahoma won court approval to proceed with a federal lawsuit challenging tax aspects of President Barack Obama’s 2010 health-care legislation.
The ruling was a victory of sorts for those who want the proposed dump to open but may have little practical impact in the long-running dispute over Yucca Mountain.
President Obama liked the idea laid out in a memo from his staff: an ambitious plan to expand high-speed Internet access in schools that would allow students to use digital notebooks and teachers to customize lessons like never before. Better yet, the president would not need Congress to approve it.
The nation’s most prominent labor organization plans to throw its political weight most heavily into a half-dozen governors’ races in the 2014 cycle, focusing on states where the outcome of gubernatorial elections will be most “consequential” for union members and working-class voters, the AFL-CIO’s top strategist said Tuesday.
American Airlines and US Airways vowed Tuesday to fight the Justice Department lawsuit that seeks to block their planned merger because of concerns that travelers would pay hundreds of millions more for fares and fees.
View and compare states' revenue projections for fiscal year 2014
Cities worry a lot about losing talented people, but few of them do much to attract new people. A sales mindset needs to be part of the culture of the community.
In many children and families agencies, placing foster care children with their relatives was previously taboo.
The number of U.S. jurisdictions that have merged their police and fire administrations out of the nation's more than 18,000 agencies. Jersey City, N.J., is the latest to consider such a move.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, in an address to the American Bar Association’s annual meeting where she also urged Congress to reconsider the Voting Rights Act -- which the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down a portion of.
Gov. Pat Quinn has signed into law a bill that allows gambling winnings to be seized to pay past-due child support. The bill is effective immediately.
The two-year waiver means that Maine is exempt from the strict and virtually unattainable guidelines of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, which decreed that 100 percent of students nationwide reach proficiency in math and reading by 2014.
President Barack Obama has found a way to cater to his obsession with pre-K programs while the rest of his education agenda stalls: Skip Congress and spend the money anyway.
Beginning next year, transgender students in California schools will be able to compete on sports teams and use facilities, including restrooms, based on their gender identity rather than their sex.
Only existing medical-marijuana dispensaries will be able to open recreational pot shops in Denver until 2016, under a plan that received initial approval by the Denver City Council on Monday.
In a repudiation of a major element in the Bloomberg administration's crime-fighting legacy, a federal judge has found that the stop-and-frisk tactics of the New York Police Department violated the constitutional rights of minorities in New York and called for a federal monitor to oversee broad reforms.
Elsewhere across the country, a number of police departments have found themselves under federal court oversight, often in response to a broader range of alleged police misconduct than in the New York case.
Hillary Clinton criticized the Supreme Court’s recent decision to strike down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, urging Congress to reconsider the 1965 landmark law and calling on citizen activists to mobilize in their communities.
The new law brings sweeping changes to the state’s election process by reducing the early-voting period by a week, abolishing same-day voter registration and ending straight-party voting.
As more states pass laws authorizing testing of autonomous vehicles, key legal questions need to be answered.
The number of jobs the Philadelphia School District added with stimulus dollars -- only to eliminate all the positions in 2012.
Maine Gov. Paul LePage, referring to one of the state's newspapers. He has reportedly said before that his biggest fear is newspapers and that buying one is like paying someone to lie to you.
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