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Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has re-opened voter registration in four South Georgia counties where Hurricane Michael forced their election offices to close last week.
Beds in Alaska's state-run psychiatric hospital not being used because of staffing shortages. Patients are instead being diverted to emergency rooms and jails -- even if they have not been accused of a crime.
Idaho Fish and Game Commissioner Blake Fischer in an email to colleagues about his hunting trip to Namibia, where he killed and photographed himself with large dead animals, including a giraffe. Republican Gov. Butch Otter said the emails and graphic photos did not "exercise good judgment" and called for his resignation. Fischer obliged.
As service taxes gain favor as a way to raise revenue, there's a growing movement to stop them. Voters in Arizona joined it on Tuesday.
Officials at the Alaska Psychiatric Institute in Anchorage said the facility recently halted admissions amid alarm by a spike in staff injuries over a two-week period from the end of September to early October.
A new law is on the books in Pennsylvania requiring those convicted of misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence or subject to protective orders to give up their guns within 24 hours.
In the middle of September, Blake Fischer sent an email to more than 100 friends and colleagues recapping his recent hunting trip to Namibia.
The woman, who spoke to NJ Advance Media on the condition she not be identified, said Albert J. Alvarez attacked her during a Rutgers Law Review gathering in the fall of 1999, and that she feels remorse for not reporting it to police.
Approved by voters in 1978, Proposition 13 set state property taxes at 1 percent of the purchase price and capped annual increases at 2 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is lower.
The high court issued a rebuke of Scott on Monday, saying the governor "exceeded his authority" when he moved last month to begin the process of naming new Supreme Court justices.
The Walker administration disputed the governor is slow-walking the process, saying the state needs time to iron out the details and blaming delays on the Trump administration.
There’s been a flurry of state legislation to tackle the problem — with radically different approaches that reflect the highly partisan national divide.
Minnesota state Rep. Dave Baker, a Republican who sponsored a failed bill this year that would have charged pharmaceutical companies a fee for every opioid painkiller they sell. It would have raised an estimated $20 million in annual funding for opioid abuse prevention and treatment.
Average drop in Obamacare premiums for 2019, marking the first time rates have dropped since the 2010 health-care law was implemented.
This book addresses tough issues that communities face with the challenges of competing historical memory, claims of heritage desecration and the ongoing scourge of racism.
Scott Wagner removed the nearly 3-minute video posted on Facebook, and said he may have used a poor choice of words and that his passion should not be confused with anger.
A jury has awarded $479,500 to a transgender UW-Madison employee and $301,000 to a transgender UW-Madison student after a federal judge found a state ban on insurance coverage for gender reassignment surgery to be sex discrimination.
Since PennDOT announced a voluntary request for authorization to be submitted by self-driving car companies operating in the state, Aurora is the first to receive the authorization.
The 5-2 high court decision vacated a preliminary injunction that required the state place homeless families with recognized disabilities in a motel if available shelters couldn’t accommodate their circumstances and the motel could.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected two last-ditch efforts to save the life of Tennessee death row inmate Edmund Zagorski, apparently clearing the way for his execution despite a delay caused by legal wrangling.
This boom is engulfing the rest of West Texas, too, extending to areas that drilling hasn’t touched before. As communities welcome the jobs and the new business, they’re struggling with an onslaught of problems that include spikes in traffic accidents and homelessness.
The agreements are tentative and must be approved by multiple states and agencies as well as the U.S. government, but they are seen as a milestone in the effort to preserve the river.
In October 1998, when Shepard was killed, only Minnesota and the District of Columbia had laws that covered hate crimes against LGBTQ people. Today, 18 states have hate-crime laws that address sexual orientation or gender identity, and another 12 states address hate crimes based on sexual orientation.
Several civil rights organizations are suing Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp to stop the state from enforcing a law that has put more than 53,000 voter registrations on hold.
After the Florida Democratic Party filed a lawsuit earlier this week seeking a statewide extension of the voter registration deadline, a federal judge has rejected it, saying "there is no justification."
Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor Scott Wagner, threatening his opponent, Gov. Tom Wolf, in a campaign video posted on Facebook.
Percent of children under 2 who haven’t received any vaccinations.
The video clip, in which Schuette appears to attempt to flirt with the camerawoman, was being widely circulated on social media Thursday afternoon after it was published by the pro-Democrat group American Bridge.
The decision comes a little more than a year after the city’s police watchdog agency had taken the rare step of finding the officer at fault and recommending he be fired for using excessive force in shooting Dakota Bright.
The institute will combine the three state universities, Department of Transportation, Department of Public Safety, Commerce Department and companies working on automated cars, trucks and drones, officials said.
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