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A small sign taped to a gun case at big-box retailer Walmart in central Santa Fe says the store -- and all Walmarts across New Mexico -- will stop selling firearms later this month after a new state law took effect requiring background checks on sales of nearly all firearms.
While abortion bans in Republican-led states dominated headlines in recent weeks, a handful of other states have expanded abortion access. Maine joined those ranks in June with two new laws ― one requires all insurance and Medicaid to cover the procedure and the other allows physician assistants and nurses with advanced training to perform it.
A Cook County judge ruled this week that Illinois lawmakers violated the state constitution when they voted to freeze their pay every year from 2009 through 2016.
China has disrupted our once-thriving recycling programs. Cities and counties should be investing in the recycling industry, not incinerators.
Time a driver's license can be suspended, under a new law, for refusing a police officer's request to take a sobriety test in the state of Kansas. The maximum suspension is the same for failure of a breathalyzer or blood test.
Liz White, on learning that her fertility doctor substituted his own sperm for what she thought came from an anonymous medical student donor. Her home state of Indiana, and Texas, have since made fertility fraud a crime.
Local governments are offering employees home loans and even housing if they reside among the people they serve.
The move to print the census without the question came after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Commerce Department had failed to justify its proposal.
Cities and counties pursuing hundreds of similar cases against Insys are not part of the deal, nor are several states that had already agreed to put their lawsuits on hold.
It's not clear Gov. Ducey has the power to block the factory, or the incentives.
New instances of fertility fraud in Indiana — and Texas — can be prosecuted under laws recently signed by the governors of both states. But they are the only states that make fertility fraud specifically illegal. Experts expect other states to follow suit.
The bill restores voting rights to formerly incarcerated individuals automatically once they are released from prison.
The investigation will focus on creating a timeline of the tragedy, reviewing the gunman's employment history and analyzing how to prevent workplace violence in the future.
Hackers have infected computers at a Georgia courts agency, demanding a ransom payment and causing officials to shut down court websites.
Under a new state law, police can't ticket motorists suspected of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol for refusing an officer's request to take a field sobriety test.
The state is drawing inspiration from the gambling industry to get cannabis businesses access to banks.
Public comment on a proposal in Seattle to allow apartments, townhomes and duplexes in many neighborhoods where only single-family homes are built. The goal of up-zoning is to increase the supply of affordable housing. The proposal has been scaled back.
911 calls that failed to go through in 2017 due to an AT&T outage. Customers couldn't dial 911 again on Tuesday morning.
Building on decades of experience, public leaders are finding new ways to tap the power of this powerful, evolving form of data-driven management.
A cost-benefit model is the best route to creating fiscally prudent incentive packages.
The attorneys general from California and Massachusetts, Xavier Becerra and Maura Healey, said on Monday they are leading the case, after the EPA denied the states’ petition that it collect more data on asbestos.
Beating back the plant requires coordination between different agencies and levels of government, sustained commitment and funding.
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Friday evening a controversial bill limiting how many felons will be able to vote, undercutting much of the promise of last year’s historic Amendment 4.
It will allow duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes and "cottage clusters" on land previously reserved for single family houses in cities with more than 25,000 residents, as well as smaller cities in the Portland metro area
A new state law beginning July 1, which received unanimous support in the South Dakota House and Senate, is the first step in understanding the depth of the missing and murdered indigenous women issue in the state and begin to address it.
The Official Recall Colorado Governor Jared Polis committee doesn't have the support to start its recall petition campaign July 8, but a rival group plans to move forward.
Las Vegas is one of just 30 U.S. communities chosen to participate in ConnectHomeUSA.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Friday erased $130 million in state support for the public university system on top of a $5 million cut approved by the Legislature for the fiscal year that started Monday.
Fearing more changes from Congress, states and cities are turning less and less to the municipal bond market.
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