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Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday defended several measures included in lame-duck bills Republicans passed last week that would strip the incoming governor and attorney general of some of their powers, while saying he is considering at least one line-item veto.
Long before the Camp Fire raced through Northern California, claiming at least 85 lives and all but erasing the Gold Rush town of Paradise, state law required the three big power monopolies to file detailed strategies to prevent wildfires.
Good morning from Augusta, where it just got easier to post comments on the governor's Facebook page. The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine has settled its First Amendment lawsuit against Gov. Paul LePage, whom the group said unconstitutionally censored comments on his Facebook page.
Shawn Fleek, a spokesperson for OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon, which helped the state rewrite the law to lower the penalty for fare evasion.
Employees accidentally invited to a potluck hosted by Utah's Department of Corrections. The evite was only meant for 80 people, but a technology glitch sent it to almost the entire state workforce.
When it comes to procurement spending, there is an opportunity to strengthen cities by connecting more effectively with their diverse business population.
More than half of California’s nursing homes are asking to be exempted from new state regulations that would require them to spend more time directly caring for their patients.
An ambitious young activist is using the local food movement to help break the cycle of incarceration.
Joe Negron’s support for private prisons — and their support of him — had been written about for years. When the Republican from Stuart became Senate president in 2016, the company gave $270,000 to a political committee he controlled. When his wife ran for Congress, Geo shelled out another $100,000 to her losing cause.
Two friends poisoned by the same deadly cocktail; two families, left to suffer and to question who and how and why.
The state’s Democrats had been choosing their presidential nominee by caucus since 2008 in a system similar to Iowa’s. With caucuses, voters gather in place and discuss the candidates, as opposed to a primary, in which voting is done privately like any other election.
The Department of State late last week informed a federal judge that 6,670 ballots were mailed ahead of the Nov. 6 election but were not counted because they were not received by Election Day.
With drought entering a second decade and reservoirs continuing to shrink, seven Southwestern U.S. states that depend on the overtaxed Colorado River for crop irrigation and drinking water had been expected to ink a crucial share-the-pain contingency plan by the end of 2018.
The Trump administration is poised to roll back Clean Water Act protections on millions of acres of streams and wetlands, following through on a promise to agriculture interests and real estate developers to rewrite an Obama-era rule limiting pollution.
What a woman yelled as New York City police officers aggressively pulled and yanked her 1-year-old child out of her arms so they could arrest her on charges of trespassing and resisting arrest for refusing to stand up at a government welfare office where she was renewing her child care benefits. There were no chairs available, so she sat on the floor in the corner.
A divided Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an abortion-related case from conservative states that sought to defund Planned Parenthood.
Washington, D.C., is the latest school district to adopt the technology in an effort to improve emergency response times.
As new governors prepare for new legislative sessions, improving schools should be at the top of the list.
From 2010 to 2017, nighttime pedestrian and cyclist fatalities rose 46 percent while daytime deaths rose 15 percent.
Day that Pennsylvania is distributing naloxone, the drug that reverses opioid overdoses, to the public for free at 80 select locations -- mostly government health offices.
By the end of her first term, Hawaii state Rep. Lauren Matsumoto was hospitalized for exhaustion from trying to "do it all."
The trip is scheduled for January and the delegation will include members of the U.S.-India Business Council and co-leaders of the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development.
Mark Herring is a former state senator who became attorney general in 2014. He easily won re-election last year as voters unhappy with President Donald Trump gave Democrats a huge boost at the polls.
The policy was adopted by the council during the past legislative session and was intended to provide protections to a number of groups and clarify that harassment and discrimination of those groups was against legislative policy.
Three of the suits are centered on sites in Pennsauken, Palmyra, and Camden, and involve poisoned wells, illegal dumping by a recycler said to have mob ties, and a service station from which hundreds of gallons of gasoline seeped into a neighboring tavern’s basement.
Despite changes in sex trafficking laws since then, Cyntoia Brown must still stay behind bars for at least 51 years, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled last week.
A white nationalist was found guilty of all counts, including first-degree murder, for killing counterprotester Heather Heyer and injuring dozens of others with his car during the "Unite the Right" rally in Virginia in 2017.
Scott McCallum, who served as governor from 2001-2003, noted that Walker should be "open and transparent and reach out in a very public fashion” to discuss the lame-duck legislation with incoming Gov. Tony Evers (D).
Thieves have been stripping copper wire from abandoned houses, commercial buildings and construction sites for years. But they also have taken aim at public rights of way, creating a rash of headaches for public safety and transportation officials.
More than 500 teachers and support staff will return to 15 Acero campuses across the city Monday after walking off the job and missing four days of school last week.
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