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Pro-Medicaid expansion advocates who are suing to force Maine to roll-out voter-approved Medicaid expansion have encouraged Mainers to apply for Medicaid expansion this summer. But LePage said the plan is to deny those applications “until they’re funded.”
Four months before widespread problems with the city's lead poisoning prevention program burst into the open, then-Health Commissioner Bevan Baker was warned by a staffer that they would face serious consequences if the public learned just how deep the troubles ran.
For the second time in his political life, Allan Fung, the son of Chinese immigrants and four-term mayor of Cranston, has captured the Republican nomination to run for governor.
Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday started what will be a closely watched process to replace three Florida Supreme Court justices who will retire in January, with the appointments possibly leading to a major ideological shift on the court.
More than a dozen states now offer grants, often called scholarships, promising to help qualifying students pay for some or all of their college education.
The legislation will also mean New Yorkers can change the gender on their birth certificate without a doctor's sign-off -- instead, they will be able to self-attest to their gender identity.
Perhaps no other population is as vulnerable during a hurricane as frail, older adults, especially those who are homebound or living in nursing homes.
A Washington federal court judge on Wednesday ruled the department’s postponement of the so-called Borrower Defense rule was procedurally improper.
Local governments are turning to data-driven tools to meet growing waste management challenges.
The research is clear: Proactive law enforcement does reduce crime. Reducing racially disparate outcomes is the next challenge.
Controversial state Senate candidate Julia Salazar said Tuesday that she was sexually assaulted by a top spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has ordered the National Rifle Association to stop selling liability insurance in the state without a license.
Seth Rogen in announcements for Vancouver's public transit, which he offered to do free of charge.
Proposed nurse-to-patient ratio for psychiatric wards under a ballot measure that would make Massachusetts the second state with such staffing requirements. The ratio varies based on what type of patients nurses are helping.
The move is intended to turn back a surge in chlamydia and gonorrhea, which have made double-digit increases in the suburban county.
46 states have some version of the program popularized by New York's Kendra’s Law, known in the mental health lexicon as “Assisted Outpatient Treatment,” or A.O.T.
Throughout the campaign, Molly Kelly accused Chris Sununu of "shooting from the hip" too often, sucking up to the Trump administration and embracing an energy policy that's far more friendly to major utilities contributing to his campaign than it is to energy consumers in the state.
State laws boosting wind and solar power have seen remarkable success over the past two decades.
Tens of thousands of low-level marijuana convictions could be erased with the OK of Brooklyn's top prosecutor under a new plan for wiping records clean of offenses no longer being prosecuted in parts of the nation's biggest city.
Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said the newly formed Office of Public Integrity and Accountability will be led by a longtime federal prosecutor with a record of high-profile public corruption convictions.
In a further sign of the sprawling nature of the Justice Department’s effort to collect voting records in North Carolina, prosecutors demanded eight years of information from the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles, according to a copy of the subpoena obtained by The New York Times.
The department's new civil rights head has re-opened a discrimination case against Rutgers University brought by a Zionist group that the Obama administration closed four years ago.
It is 2035 -- the year advocates aim to kill off production of gasoline and diesel powered vehicles.
Almost all those running for promotion to governor lost their party's primaries.
Their purchasing pledge is a small but symbolic step toward reducing greenhouse gases.
A federal appeals court ruling Monday could limit abortion services throughout Missouri, including at a clinic in Kansas City.
Tacoma's public schools will be closed for a fourth day Tuesday as an ongoing dispute over teacher pay creates the state's largest work stoppage of educators.
Three contested constitutional amendments -- one banning greyhound racing, another that would require Miami-Dade County voters to elect a sheriff and one on crime victims' rights -- will be on the ballot despite lawsuits that challenged their language, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.
Campaign spending by three progressive groups, between now and Election Day, on digital ads to help 75 state legislative candidates in places that will play a big role in redistricting.
Consent form sent to parents from a school in Hephzibah, Ga., asking them to approve of a new corporal punishment policy. One-third of the parents signed it. Paddling is legal in 20 states, including Georgia.
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