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Puerto Rico's Electric Power Authority, which is more than $9 billion in debt, had been expected to sign the contract with Stantec, a consulting firm based in Canada.
The wide-scale water distribution of 247 pallets of water is the first time the city has taken such drastic action since the lead crisis began in 2017.
Led by an Alaska Native spiritual healer and a former coal mine operator, thousands of Alaskans across party lines are teaming up to recall GOP Gov. Mike Dunleavy.
Kevin McGinnis of the National Association of State EMS Officials, on how community paramedicine will impact emergency services.
Paid family and medical leave guaranteed under a new Oregon law that also makes it the first state in the nation to offer low-income workers 100 percent wage replacement benefits.
The appeals court overturned a 2018 decision from a federal district judge who ruled that the law, which gives adoption placement preference to Native American tribes, was unconstitutional. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton challenged the law in 2017.
A billionaire with ties to New Mexico faces charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy. Now documents connected to one of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates that were previously sealed have been released.
Supporters of the senior benefits program say the governor has suddenly ripped away monthly income that some of the state's oldest residents have long depended on.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday asked the Florida Supreme Court justices to issue an opinion on whether felons must pay all fines and fees before they are eligible to register to vote.
Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed a bipartisan bill Friday to create an independent commission proposed to come up with the best way to redraw legislative, congressional and Executive Council districts after the 2020 elections.
The office also added that the bill will provide victims of domestic violence with paid time off and “guarantees 100% of wages to low-income workers."
Dayton, Ohio, Mayor Nan Whaley speaking last week regarding the likelihood that another American city will be struck with a mass shooting soon.
The number of undocumented immigrants arrested by ICE at seven sites across Mississippi last week. The raids are believed to be the largest single-state immigration enforcement operation in the country's history.
The Virginia Tech shootings in 2007 claimed the lives of 32 people. The Virginia Beach shooting in May resulted in 12 deaths. In the 12 years between those mass shootings, more than 3,000 people were killed in shootings in Virginia.
Just months before the state's new privacy law is set to take effect, Silicon Valley giants and other corporations are facing off against privacy advocates in a last-ditch effort to alter the measure, the California Consumer Privacy Act, in the supermajority Democratic Legislature.
As climate change makes summers hotter, the health risks associated with these hyperlocal heat islands will grow.
The uneasy calm that had settled over Puerto Rico after huge protests brought down one governor and a second one was installed in his place ended on Wednesday when its Supreme Court ruled that the only way to maintain the constitutional order was to swear in the island’s third governor in a week.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety still issues concealed-weapons permits despite law changes from nearly a decade ago no longer requiring them.
Georgia's economy is still growing, but state agencies will have to look for ways to cut their budgets under a directive the Kemp administration sent out Tuesday.
Dayton, Ohio, Mayor Nan Whaley (D) said Wednesday that another American city will likely be struck with a mass shooting in the coming days as federal lawmakers fail to take legislative action following the latest massacres.
Many Republican state lawmakers don’t seem to have an appetite for taking up new gun control legislation despite last weekend’s mass shootings.
Texas is getting new gun laws.
Officials declined to provide details about what sites had been targeted, citing what they said was an ongoing criminal investigation.
The Tuesday ruling also blocks a new law barring providers from performing an abortion if the woman's decision to terminate the pregnancy was based on a diagnosis that the fetus has Down syndrome and another law requiring providers to be certified in obstetrics and gynecology.
Hogan said the Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center is "actively monitoring" social media and other online activity for "potential threats."
One potential cause for the lag time is that the commission is essentially a startup, unlike other boards and agencies with built-in procedures and existing members.
The bill also added to the list of situations for which absentee voting is allowed -- if a voter is a caregiver for a family member and if a voter is incarcerated but not convicted of a felony that disqualifies them from voting.
They're often the ones who see public-health problems at their earliest stages. There are ways to make better use of their data.
Most states have repealed their Prohibition-era '3.2 laws,' but they would do beer-drinkers and retailers a favor by clearing away their remaining alcohol-content restrictions.
Only one has a cabinet-level official dedicated to the issue.
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