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What prevents cities from adopting electric buses en masse is a mix of technological, financial, and institutional challenges.
Utah may spend up to $50 million over about five years as part of a new deal with Panasonic to expand the use of roadside sensor technology that will be able to exchange data in real time with compatible vehicles traveling on the state’s roads.
President Trump's ending of the safe release program is costing cities and counties. Congress is debating a bill that would at least partially reimburse them.
Red-state voters supported it in the fall, but Republican lawmakers in other states are still hesitant.
The 5-4 ruling leaves no options for challenging maps perceived as unfairly partisan in federal court.
The justices rejected the Trump administration's plan, for now, to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. Even if it's not ultimately added, there are concerns about immigrants, minorities and low-income people not being counted.
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court decision that leaves it up to states and Congress to address partisan gerrymandering.
People who could lose their health care -- whether it's through Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program or the marketplace -- if the Trump administration goes through with its proposal to change how the federal poverty line is calculated.
Alice Rivlin's legacy includes not only the creation of a pathbreaking national institution but also the salvation of the District of Columbia.
One way to boost immunization rates is to narrow school vaccination exemptions, which four states have done this year. Another is to take the decision out of parents’ hands and let their kids choose for themselves
These institutions offer statewide resources that municipal leaders should take more advantage of.
This brings the total number of BSO first responders fired in the aftermath of the worst high school shooting in Florida history to four.
Former Gov. Jerry Brown proposed the project as a first step to start addressing allegations of gender-based harassment in state government that were coming out amid the #MeToo movement.
The issue of parental rights for rapists gained fresh relevance in May, after Alabama lawmakers passed the nation’s strictest ban on abortion.
With a growing number of local jails refusing to honor ICE detainers, routine traffic stops have become “one more tool” for the federal government “to detain and deport people.”
Under the law, Connecticut workers at firms of one or more employee will be eligible for paid time off to care for a newborn, a newly adopted or foster child, a seriously ill relative by blood or marriage or a close associate who is the equivalent of a family member.
The study from the department's inspector general first looked at 888 of the 2,495 bias-related complaints filed against NYPD officers between when the department began tracking such complaints in 2014 and the end of 2018.
State-level data from Arkansas, California, Georgia, Maine, Minnesota, Wisconsin and several Plains states underscores that lawyers cluster in urban areas.
LGBTQ people's representation in U.S. politics. Out of the nearly 520,000 elected offices, LGBTQ people hold 698 of them.
Aubrey Jewett, a political scientist at the University of Central Florida
At issue was whether confidentiality, as used in a section of the Freedom of Information Act, means anything intended to be kept secret or only information likely to cause harm if publicized.
Under the ordinance, "no person shall sell or distribute an electronic cigarette to a person in San Francisco" without first passing a Food and Drug Administration review, which no e-cigarette brand has done.
The law provides for selected businesses to be licensed to grow, process, transport and sell the drug. The bill also provides for expungement -- the nullification of lower-level cannabis possession convictions -- and funding for minority neighborhoods hit hardest by prosecution of marijuana possession.
Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Val DiGiorgio resigned Tuesday after The Inquirer reported that he had traded sexually explicit messages with a onetime GOP candidate for Philadelphia City Council.
Judith Persichilli would be the first nurse to hold the job that includes licensing and inspecting hospitals and nursing homes, responding to public health emergencies and running the medicinal marijuana program.
The state routinely has some of the nation’s highest rates of domestic violence, sexual assault and murder.
The amended bill says internet service providers that are contracted by the state have to agree to provide "net neutral service."
Some state vehicles in Maryland will be outfitted with digital license plates as part of a two-year pilot program to see if the developing technology could work for customers.
There are more lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans politicians than ever before, but they only make up .1 percent of elected officials.
The potential change in the federal poverty line would lower the number of people who qualify for social services by almost 1 million.
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