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Unlike most politicians, California's outgoing governor has made planning ahead a staple of his leadership -- even if it means going against his own party.
The Oklahoma city's "Black Wall Street" was one of the richest African-American neighborhoods in the country. Then whites burned it to the ground.
The city, which has more empty and dilapidated houses than most, is making buyers prove that they can afford to purchase a home — and to fix it up.
While some homeowners are now paying nothing in property taxes, businesses and local governments are feeling the pinch.
Uncertainties about resources, and a question about residents' citizenship status, are making localities more nervous than usual about not counting people.
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States and cities are trying to use science to create better policies and programs. New federal foster care rules are complicating their efforts.
It's leading an increasing number of state and local governments to commit to 100 percent clean energy goals.
What sets these outliers apart?
Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia, who is facing fraud charges in federal court and has been served with an eviction notice, announced he will not step down Tuesday morning.
For more than a week, details in the case of a Lakeland city commissioner who fatally shot an alleged shoplifter came mainly from police accounts.
The lead paint industry's efforts to avoid a cleanup bill for more than $400 million has reached the end of the road.
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.
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