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It’s not just neighbors upset at the wild parties. Unsuspecting homeowners can get burned too.
Among other things, the amended rules ease the requirements on certain foods containing marijuana and on state residency requirements for operating a recreational marijuana businesses.
Threats against the state lawmakers and government officials come amid a clash between Democrats and Republicans, specifically over a sweeping greenhouse gas emissions cap-trade-bill.
The bill’s signing makes Illinois the first state to forbid such detention centers.
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to scrap the entrance exam attracted national fanfare when it was announced, but it soon collided with stubborn realities.
New Jersey's governor on Thursday signed a law to improve rideshare safety in honor of Robbinsville, New Jersey, native Samantha "Sami" Josephson, a college student who was kidnapped and killed after she got into a car she mistakenly thought was an Uber.
The federal guidelines for bus fire safety haven't been significantly updated in nearly 50 years, according to the NTSB.
Dave Bauer, the CEO of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, says the Trump administration and Congress need to pitch in to help states accomplish their transportation goals.
Current and former police officers whose offensive social media posts have been compiled and published by the watchdog Plain View Project. Several law enforcement agencies have since taken disciplinary action against those officers or launched their own investigations.
Oregon state Sen. Brian Boquist, one of the nearly dozen Republican lawmakers who went into hiding or left the state last week to prevent the chamber from voting on a bill that would create a cap-and-trade system in the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Democratic governor sent the state police to find them.
A playbook developed by religious interest groups was used to push controversial new laws in statehouses nationwide.
The EPA's Affordable Clean Energy rule rescinds the Obama administration's ambitious Clean Power Plan and replaces it with less stringent guidelines for states and coal-fired power plants to reduce their emissions.
The screenshots of the public posts, published in the Plain View Project's online database, purport to show officers or police department employees making hateful or racist remarks.
All 11 Republican senators are in hiding, at least some of them out of state, in order to prevent the Senate from having the quorum it needs to operate.
The #MeToo movement, along with advocacy by former staffers who reported harassment, helped usher in changes in Albany.
In 1910, rural African American farm families held between 16 million and 19 million acres of farmland, but the latest Census of Agriculture shows the amount of land held by African American farmers with active farms has dropped to just over 2.5 million acres.
Hawaii’s governor announced Thursday that state officials gave the go-ahead to a construction company that will build a giant telescope on top of a volcano that some Native residents consider sacred.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed legislation clearing the way for Briarwood Presbyterian Church and its affiliated school, as well as a private academy in Madison County, to establish their own police forces.
His approach to sustainability is bolder than most.
Adam Gelb, founder and director of the Council on Criminal Justice, in reference to a report that shows 45 percent of admissions to state prisons are the result of probation or parole violations -- about a third as minor as missing a meeting or spending time with other felons.
Amount that Google pledged to give toward alleviating the housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay Area, where its headquarters is located.
They're putting more emphasis on applicants' emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills.
Almost every state has jumped at the opportunity to tax online purchases.
New research offers one way to look at the enormity of the cost as policymakers consider how to choose winners and losers in the race to adapt to climate change.
More than half of the $1 billion is earmarked for the town of Paradise and Butte County, which sustained catastrophic loss of life and property damage after the Camp fire in November 2018. At least 85 people died.
A county clerk in New York is challenging a new state law that would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain noncommercial driver’s licenses and learner’s permits.
Google's announcement Tuesday that it would put $1 billion toward housing -- including affordable units for the community and housing for its employees -- came weeks after Wells Fargo pledged the same round number -- $1 billion -- toward housing affordability over the next six years.
The work requirement had only a limited chance for success because nearly 97% of Arkansas residents subject to the mandate — those between the ages of 30 and 49 who were eligible for Medicaid — were already employed or should have been exempt from the new law.
The 65 Bitcoins, which equals $600,000, will come from the city's insurance, officials said.
Gerd W. Clabaugh, director of the Iowa Department of Public Health, will serve as the interim director of Human Services, according to a statement from the Governor's Office.
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