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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.
The new Comprehensive Child Welfare Information Systems rule provides states an opportunity to modernize child welfare systems and enhance outcomes. The Accenture Case Insight Solution can help them get there.
Just over half of the 36 gubernatorial races are competitive.
A school in Hephzibah, Georgia, is drawing national attention after sending consent forms to parents informing them of a new policy of using paddling as a form of punishment for students, CBS affiliate WRDW-TV reports.
County officials say the decision on whether to take the rare step of holding another primary election rests with the judge who's presiding over the case.
Gavin Newsom insisted he wasn't taking his gubernatorial bid for granted by focusing on down-ballot races.
Meth-related deaths in the county nearly doubled from 2016 to 2017, from 36 to 67, while meth ranked among the fastest-growing drugs in fatalities elsewhere in the state.
Obama said in a statement that Nevada has a chance to elect its first Democratic governor in 20 years and Sisolak would fight for “justice, equality and opportunity for all Nevadans.”
State estimates aren’t due until mid-November, but many experts see oil and natural gas drilling, driven by higher prices, as a leading reason.
Hurricane Florence exploded in size and strength Monday, putting the coast of the Southeastern United States on high alert for potentially deadly storm surge, devastating winds and intense, flooding rainfall by Thursday.
Sanders is getting behind Nixon’s running mate, lieutenant governor candidate Jumaane Williams, and the progressive state attorney general candidate who’s running as a Nixon ally, Zephyr Teachout.
All of California's electricity will come from clean power sources by 2045 under legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday, the latest in a series of ambitious goals set by the state to combat the effects of climate change.
U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis resigned from Congress on Monday to concentrate on his campaign for governor against Andrew Gillum, his Democratic opponent.
Advocates say the Federal Transit Administration is sitting on nearly $1.8 billion that’s supposed to help build light rail lines, streetcars and subway improvements. Delaying these projects, they argue, could increase costs for local transit agencies.
Medicaid recipients in Arkansas who have lost their health insurance for the rest of this year after failing to meet the state's new work requirements. Arkansas is the first state to implement this policy.
A Miss America contestant, calling out the Flint water crisis, in her introduction.
The 2018 hurricane season blew into high gear on Sunday.
The board on Thursday unanimously approved a tuition waiver for the state’s foster youth that could help students like Sandoval-Lunn earn a college certificate or degree.
Kenner City Mayor Ben Zahn appeared to declare on Sept. 5, that “under no circumstances” should Nike products or any product with the Nike logo be purchased, WBRZ 2 reported Saturday.
On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, Cynthia Nixon and her campaign supporters are demanding Gov. Cuomo and the state's Democratic Party repent for a mailer emblazoned with her picture and the words "anti-Semitism."
Rep. Ron DeSantis spoke four times at conferences organized by a conservative activist who has said that African Americans owe their freedom to white people and that the country’s “only serious race war” is against whites.
In a move aimed at stopping President Trump's plans to expand offshore oil drilling along the California coast, Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday signed two laws that prohibit construction of new pipelines that could bring the oil and gas to shore.
The largest health insurance company in Tennessee will stop covering OxyContin prescriptions next year as part of sweeping policy changes intended to combat opioid addiction and make pain pills less valuable on the black market.
Arkansas became the first state ever to implement work requirements, after gaining approval from the Trump administration earlier this year.
Ruling from the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which applies to governments in nine Western states
Expected increase, on average, in health premiums on the insurance exchanges next year. That represents a major drop from this year when the average increase was 30 percent.
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Thursday signed an executive order for transferring all remaining U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees out of the city jail and declaring that Atlanta will no longer hold anyone for the federal agency.
A mayor of a small Eastern North Carolina town and his wife were found dead in their home, and police say they have suspects in custody.
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