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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.
They're bringing new perspectives and ideas.
Jonathan Singer, one of just two state legislators who endorsed the Colorado ballot measure that legalized recreational marijuana. He was talking to a reporter in his car while his 3-year-old sat in the back seat.
Criminal records that Pennsylvania is automatically sealing for charges that didn't result in convictions and low-level misdemeanors committed by people who haven't incurred any other charges within a decade. The state's Clean Slate law is unprecedented in America.
One study, conducted at the University of Michigan Law School, found people who received expungements saw their wages increase by an average of 25 percent within two years.
Colorado’s first-in-the-nation experiment with legalized marijuana has infused the drug into almost every corner of life.
Pritzker said the order establishes a new Affirming and Inclusive Schools Task Force, and directs the state’s public school board to take “comprehensive action” to better support transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming students.
Gov. David Ige has approved a new law that enables family members, co-workers or police to obtain court orders blocking access to firearms for people who show signs they could pose a danger to themselves or others.
The settlement stipulates $200 million, or the bulk of the settlement, must go toward establishing a national center for addiction treatment at the Oklahoma State University Center for Wellness and Recovery in Tulsa.
A loss of accreditation would prevent university students from receiving federal financial aid, as well as affect processes for transfer students.
Medicaid recipients in Arizona can now use Lyft to travel to non-emergency medical appointments, with similar laws on the way in Florida and Texas.
Much remains in flux, including the possibility of land being taken through eminent domain to widen evacuation routes.
Patricia Okonta, a legal fellow at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, referring to school dress codes that prohibit hairstyles typically associated with black people, such as afros, braids, twists, and locks. California is on its way to becoming the first state to ban discrimination against natural hair.
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