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The Denver initiative is the latest front in a campaign advocates for homeless people have been waging at the state level for years.
Former California Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, when he vetoed a bill in 2017 that would have required presidential candidates to release tax returns. A total of 18 states have introduced similar bills this year.
Annual salary for Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak. He pledged to donate it to K-12 schools all four years of his term and last week gave away his first-quarter salary.
With the stroke of a pen, Gov. Kevin Stitt has ensured that cities and counties in Oklahoma will not be allowed to regulate plastic bags and auxiliary containers.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, an East Lansing Democrat who took office in January, has not proposed resuming state funding for bottled water amid ongoing donations from Nestle.
Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina and his wife, Dalia, were arrested Thursday by the Election Fraud Unit of the Texas attorney general's office and accused of running a vote-harvesting scheme.
A lawsuit challenging Wisconsin's rule denying Medicaid coverage for medically necessary transgender surgeries has become a class action that could benefit hundreds of affected residents.
Trying to stop a measles outbreak from spreading, health officials announced Thursday that more than 200 students and staff members at UCLA and Cal State L.A. who have been exposed to measles are being asked to stay home.
Nationally, an estimated 30,000 people are in such association health plans, a type of health insurance seeing a nascent resurgence following an initial drop-off after the ACA took effect in 2014.
A federal judge in Yakima on Thursday blocked new Trump administration rules that could cut off federal funding for health-care providers who refer patients for an abortion.
Biden officially launched his campaign Thursday, after months of speculation.
Gov. Larry Hogan is calling on Baltimore's embattled Mayor Catherine Pugh to resign Thursday, a few hours after federal investigators raided her home and other locations including City Hall.
A Massachusetts judge and court officer were indicted for helping an undocumented immigrant escape a courthouse via a back exit to avoid being arrested by immigration authorities.
Year that the number of middle-income Americans -- making between $25,000 and $74,000 -- is expected to double among people 75 or older. More than half of them likely won't be able to afford housing and health care.
Bridget Anne Kelly, one of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's aides, after she was sentenced this week to 13 months in prison for her role in the "Bridgegate" scandal.
Democrats are pushing legislation to require presidential candidates to release their tax returns. The same rules don't apply for most statewide elections -- but that could change.
The money Sisolak donated went to the Department of Education's Education Gift Fund.
New Mexico’s 40-member Complete Count Commission will have $3.5 million to encourage participation.
Hawaii was the first state to pass a full ban last year. Now California, Oregon, New York and Connecticut are trying to do the same.
Pugh has been facing mounting calls for her to resign over a scandal that involves the sale of her children’s books to entities that do business with the city.
The current configuration of the district, spanning parts of six counties, was drawn in the 2012 legislative session.
The 71-45 vote sets up a potential dispute with the state Senate over whether court fines, fees and restitution should be required before felons can vote.
That Bridget Anne Kelly was sentenced to prison came as little surprise -- she'd already been sentenced once, but an appeals court ruling necessitated a new hearing.
Middle-income seniors are a group that Beth Burnham Mace, one of the study’s authors, said has been often overlooked when policymakers and legislators think about housing and care for aging Americans.
Promising initiatives around the country show what can be done in struggling neighborhoods.
If states changed where and how we select candidates, turnout would soar and we'd learn a lot more about what voters really think.
The city of South Bend is a finalist for this year’s City Accelerator project, which is focused on helping cities promote economic equity.
The city of Pittsburgh is a finalist for this year’s City Accelerator project, which is focused on helping cities promote economic equity.
The city of Philadelphia is a finalist for this year’s City Accelerator project, which is focused on helping cities promote economic equity.
The city of Newark is a finalist for this year’s City Accelerator project, which is focused on helping cities promote economic equity.
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