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The president's trillion-dollar proposal could have been a signature achievement.
The ascent of cities is real, though things may not be as rosy as some suggest.
The FCC will vote on an order next week that would invalidate many local and potentially some state agreements with internet companies.
States where coal was the most common energy source last year. That's down from 28 a decade earlier.
Margaret Chapman Pomponio, CEO of WVFree, an advocacy group campaigning against a West Virginia ballot measure that would make it illegal to receive or perform an abortion. If passed, the law could not be enforced unless Roe v. Wade is overturned or severely gutted.
The median vacancy rate in St. Louis rose from 14.7 percent in 1990 to 18.5 percent in 2010, according to a recent paper on vacancy in Rust Belt cities by Alan Mallach, an urban scholar and senior fellow at the Center for Community Progress.
Council Member David Grosso (I-At Large) is introducing a bill that would make the Office of State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) an independent agency outside of the mayor’s office.
In the shadow of Silicon Valley, the hub of the world’s digital revolution, California officials still submit their records to the feds justifying billions in Medicaid spending the old-fashioned way: on paper.
Daley's challenge is to make the case that his candidacy is more back to the future than simply going back in time.
Flooding and downed trees from Hurricane Florence are blocking dozens of roads in and around Wilmington Monday, leaving the coastal city largely cut off from the rest of the state.
Former state Sen. Shortey, 36, pleaded guilty in November to child sex trafficking and faced up to life in prison.
This is the first time that U.S. senators have so directly jumped into the fight for statehouses.
Only 20 states have the reserves needed to operate for the first year of an economic downturn without having to slash budgets or raise taxes, S&P said.
California Gov. Jerry Brown's announcement at the Global Climate Action Summit last week.
When Gov. Jerry Brown said California should launch its own satellite in the 1970s, the plan was considered so far-fetched that critics dubbed him Gov. Moonbeam.
Women running for governor this year who won primaries, which represents a 26 percent success rate. That's roughly half the success rate of female candidates for Congress this year. Georgia, Maine and South Dakota could elect their first female governor in November.
The latest from Florence, plus recent coverage on how states and cities across the country are planning for the next big storm.
While much attention has been paid to the influence of natural gas, nuclear power generation also increased in a number of states where those sources were most dominant.
As hundreds of thousands of people evacuate the coastal areas of South Carolina, more than 1,000 inmates in a Charleston County detention center will hunker down and weather out Hurricane Florence, a spokesman for the sheriff's office said.
As part of an effort to "streamline" the social studies curriculum in Texas, the State Board of Education voted on Friday to change what students in every grade are required to learn in the classroom.
The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit in 2017 on behalf of two Democratic lawmakers, arguing that the state constitution gives legislators the power to set budgets.
The company said it will use the financing to move ahead on permitting, design and engineering on what would be the first high-speed rail in America.
There's a lot that governments can do to connect disadvantaged communities to economic opportunities.
With its pollution and wildfires, climate change should be a central issue to anyone living in Los Angeles — let alone to the man running it.
According to Center for Women and American Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers, 61 women -- 41 Democrats and 20 Republicans -- filed to run in 2018. The previous record was 34 women who filed to run in 1994.
As rain from Florence continued to lash the Carolinas, the region’s swollen rivers were beginning to swamp coal ash dumps and low-lying hog farms Sunday.
Since the Pennsylvania report, several other states have launched investigations into the Catholic Church. But in some of them, laws prevent many child victims from seeking legal justice.
Public advocate and endorsed Democrat Letitia "Tish" James won the Democratic primary for New York State attorney general, making her the favorite to win the seat in the general election in November.
After four years as the Baltimore health commissioner, Dr. Leana Wen is stepping down to take a job as the new head of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
New definition of anti-Semitism adopted by the U.S. Department of Education. Critics say it "classifies virtually all criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic."
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