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Dennis Kane, a board trustee for Severance, Colo., which repealed the town's ban on snowball fights at the behest of a 9-year-old boy.
Public safety agencies in America that use drones. The latest to start is the New York City Police Department, which will use them for searches and rescues, car crash investigations and monitoring crowds at large events, among other things.
The plan assesses current water resources and makes recommendations based on population and economic growth through 2040.
Amidst a day of protests by hundreds of people across the Capitol on bills that change voter-approved ballot proposals and expand the authority of the Republican-controlled Legislature, the GOP voted to gut proposals to raise the minimum wage to $12 per hour and require employers to provide sick time for employees.
The nation's largest police department on Tuesday announced that it will soon deploy a newly acquired fleet of 14 drones to assist with emergencies.
Floridians will now have less time to apply for Medicaid coverage if they want healthcare costs retroactively covered, after federal officials approved a state request Friday to shorten how far back the state's program can pick up the bill.
Rick Scott announced Tuesday that he will remain in his current role until governor-elect Ron DeSantis is sworn in. Scott, who has kept his plans secret for weeks, was scheduled to become a U.S. senator five days before his term as governor would end.
Stacey Abrams said Monday that she is considering running for a Georgia Senate seat in 2020 or governor again in 2022 — and possibly even for president.
Backed by affiliates at the Chicago Teachers Union, the charter network's teachers said they would not return to work after what they described as a series of fruitless negotiations with management.
Among those receiving subpoenas were 13 Trump organizations, including The Trump Organization Inc., Trump International Hotels Management LLC, Trump Old Post Office LLC and The Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust.
Governments in the U.S. are starting to accept cryptocurrencies, a controversial method of payment that got its start on the dark web.
Price that Richland, Wash., pays to have its recycling hauled away. It used to receive $16 per ton for its recyclables. Since China drastically cut back this year on the used paper and plastic it buys from America, the U.S. recycling market has suffered.
Oklahoma state Sen. Joseph Silk, a Republican who proposed the "Abolition of Abortion in Oklahoma Act," which would order the state to ignore abortion rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Legislatures in recent years have increased, and intensified, their attempts to assert authority over other branches of government.
There is less than one week left of the public comment period for the proposed "public charge" rule.
A Dec. 1 payment deadline came and went without anyone volunteering to pay up on a shortfall for debt supporting the Northland's Zona Rosa shopping center, further muddying up its financial picture.
Much of the city of Atlanta and parts of DeKalb County are still under a boil water advisory Tuesday morning after a widespread water outage Monday.
A deputy mayor told the head of the city's Office of Emergency Management he was fired on Friday, a source told the News -- but without hearing from Hizzoner about his fate, the commissioner, Joseph Esposito, showed up for work on Monday.
The search comes five days after prosecutors announced that they had decided not to charge Gilliam and Councilman Jeffree Fauntleroy II for their involvement in a Nov. 11 fight outside the Haven nightclub at the Golden Nugget casino.
The Utah Medical Cannabis Act, designed as a replacement for voter-approved Proposition 2, breezed through the Utah House of Representatives and Senate during Monday’s special session.
With the most prominent potential contender officially out of the race, Louisiana Republicans appear to be left without a well-known figure to challenge Gov. John Bel Edwards less than a year away from Election Day.
The Boston Globe reports federal prosecutor Andrew Lelling has convened a grand jury to investigate the role District Court Judge Shelley Joseph may have played in helping an undocumented immigrant, Jose Medina-Perez, get away from federal immigration authorities in April.
A day after Florida's governor suspended Brenda Snipes from her position as Broward County's supervisor of elections, Snipes announced that she would be scrapping any plans to resign in January as she fights back against claims of incompetence and misconduct.
The conservative group of lawmakers recently convened in Washington, D.C., to strategize ways to capitalize on the Supreme Court's ruling this year that limited unions' ability to collect fees.
Text sent from St. Louis police officer Dustin Boone, while on protest duty, to one of his three colleagues who, along with him, were just indicted on federal charges after assaulting a cop who was undercover as a protester.
Number of abortions in 2015, which is the lowest since Roe v. Wade legalized the procedure in 1973. It represents a 24 percent decline from 2006.
Last year, 5,528 women traveled to Illinois from other states to terminate pregnancies, almost a thousand more than the 4,543 women who came from out of state in 2016.
The chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Elections announced Saturday he is resigning amidst a controversy over his social media and an ongoing investigation into alleged voter fraud in the 9th Congressional District race.
The program is testing whether participation in educational opportunities increases after access to financial aid for incarcerated adults is expanded.
Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration is settling a vote-counting lawsuit stemming from the 2016 presidential election, in part by affirming a commitment it made previously to push Pennsylvania’s counties to buy voting systems that leave a verifiable paper trail by 2020.
