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Three governors -- two Democrats and a Republican -- say the big tax hikes are needed to address their road and transportation problems.
Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, speaking at the National Governors Association winter meeting in Washington, D.C.
Minimum age for legally buying tobacco in California, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon and now Virginia, where Gov. Ralph Northam signed a bill last week making it the first state in the South to raise it.
Laws only work if they are properly enforced, spokesmen for the Illinois Rifle Association and the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence told CNN.
Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday that he wants to give patients access to cheaper prescription drugs from Canada, making Florida the latest state to try to import medications to reduce rising health care costs.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has signed legislation banning people under 21 from buying tobacco and nicotine products, a measure enacted in a state known historically for its tobacco production.
PG&E’s restructuring will test whether Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democratic leaders can push to create a company free from what critics say has been a culture of cronyism between regulators and the regulated.
The new design illustrates how states are trying to think creatively to tackle one of their costliest but most important long-term challenges: providing health care access to low-income residents and people in the state’s care.
Federal health officials are not enforcing requirements for Medicaid coverage of abortion in the limited circumstances where it is legal, congressional investigators have found.
Fairfax has been accused of sexual assault in the past month by two women, both in the early 2000s, one while he was a college student at Duke University in 2000 and another at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
At the National Governors Association winter meeting in Washington this weekend, many governors said the president's tariffs are hurting business in their states.
At the winter meeting of the National Governors Association in Washington this weekend, the lack of proper workforce training was an overarching concern.
Chicago will hold its first round of voting on Tuesday to pick Rahm Emanuel's replacement. Former Clinton administration official Bill Daley is among the frontrunners, but the huge field makes it uncertain who will proceed to the April runoff.
Many of the startups have pulled out of cities in the past year.
“Income share agreements” could lower loan payments and the financial risks of paying for college.
Other places should emulate the state's model.
The amount of missing and unusable public-sector data is stunning.
Automobiles hurt the quality of urban life, but radical change is politically difficult.
Another recession is in the forecast. This time, states seem ready to weather it.
For the most part, it’s a bad idea for governments to copy private-sector trends. But there may be one exception.
Garden State voters may not be able to cast ballots for President Trump in 2020 unless he's prepared to show where he gets his green.
In a last-ditch effort to force a vote on the Equal Rights Amendment during the final week of session, Democratic delegates -- encouraged by advocates -- attempted to finagle a rule change Thursday that goes against a longstanding tradition in the General Assembly.
The Trump administration Friday finalized a regulation intended to push Planned Parenthood out of the Title X federal family planning program, keeping a campaign promise to anti-abortion groups.
Year that South Dakota started violating a federal law that requires Medicaid to cover abortions in cases of rape or incest. It's the only state that hasn't been complying, and Republican Gov. Kristi Noem says there are no plans to change that.
Chicago Police Chief Eddie Johnson, during a news conference to announce that the "Empire" actor is being charged with a felony for allegedly filing a false police report. Smollett alleges that he was beaten and had a rope placed around his neck while racist and homophobic slurs were yelled. Johnson says there is evidence that Smollett set up the attack.
The principal of an elementary school in the Virginia suburbs of Washington has apologized for a gym class exercise in which pupils were told to act as runaway slaves for Black History Month.
New state laws and regulations in California, Virginia, Arizona, Ohio, Washington, Vermont and Rhode Island require physicians to “co-prescribe” or at least offer naloxone prescriptions when prescribing opioids to patients considered at high risk of overdosing.
Following a four-month investigation, agents with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested Dale Glen Massad, 68.
Republican lawmakers, in turn, called Evers divisive for insisting on something to which they say they'll never agree: capping a state tax credit for large manufacturers.
The governor of Tennessee has apologized for participating in "Old South" parties while he was in a fraternity at Auburn University, reports say.
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