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The actor has become the voice of announcements on Vancouver's buses and subways.
Massachusetts would have been the second state with nurse-to-patient ratio requirements.
The New York Post reports Julia Salazar filed a defamation suit against the New York Mets legend's ex-wife, Kai Hernandez in 2013.
Lawmakers in at least 10 other states intend to consider opioid taxes in upcoming legislative sessions. Many pin their hopes on the November midterm elections.
The “food is medicine” concept is simple: If chronically ill people eat a nutritious diet, they’ll need fewer medications, emergency room visits and hospital readmissions.
Ken Pimlott, director of the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, said in a letter to legislators that the agency is down to its last $11 million after spending $432 million in July and August alone. The budget year doesn't end until June 30, 2019.
The task of drawing new boundaries for thousands of federal and state legislative districts is still about three years away, yet the political battle over redistricting already is playing out in the 2018 midterm elections.
The biggest sticking point between the competing House and Senate bills has to do with changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, often called food stamps.
The consulting firm Avalere Health and The Associated Press crunched available state data and found that "Obamacare's" health insurance marketplaces seem to be stabilizing after two years of sharp premium hikes.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will meet with state attorneys general later this month to discuss concerns that tech companies "may be hurting competition and intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas on their platforms."
Daniel Koretz, an education professor at Harvard University, on education reform under Presidents Bush and Obama, which tied school and teacher evaluations to graduation rates.
People who have been registered to vote incorrectly by the California Department of Motor Vehicles. They will soon receive letters instructing them to check their registration status.
A federal judge on Wednesday struck down a Texas law that requires fetal and embryonic tissue from most failed pregnancies be buried or cremated, striking a blow to anti-abortion activists and delivering another defeat to the Texas Attorney General's Office, which defended the law in court.
Tallahassee mayor and Democratic nominee for governor Andrew Gillum announced former primary rival Chris King of Orlando will be his running mate Thursday morning, in a choice that is likely to continue to appeal strongly to progressives who lifted Gillum to victory a week and a half ago.
A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday rejected a request from a group of Republican-led states to suspend the Affordable Care Act, but he extensively quizzed attorneys involved in the latest challenge to the 2010 health care law about which provisions should survive.
A year filled with teacher strikes and sexual harassment scandals has led candidates for governor to talk more about how they would treat their state's workforce.
Bill Pound, the executive director of the National Conference of State Legislatures since 1987, helped preserve bipartisanship among lawmakers.
The Vermont Department of Corrections put out bids earlier this year for a new contract to house inmates that they say do not fit in Vermont's in-state facility.
Mi Familia Vota Education Fund, Hispanic Federation and three other groups say federal law requires Florida to have bilingual voting materials and poll workers available to people who aren't proficient in English.
Miami state Rep. Jeanette Nuñez is to be named Republican Ron DeSantis’ running mate Thursday, the first time a Cuban-American woman has been chosen as a lieutenant governor candidate in Florida.
Albuquerque has made a lot of progress in recent years. There are lessons in how it jumped to near the top of the rankings.
Some states are turning to emergency or short-term licensure to put more teachers in the classroom.
California's dramatic reduction in its prison populations hasn't compromised public safety.
The reason for the policy change: the Shelby County attorney's office ruled in April that the sheriff's office doesn't have to obey the federal requests to hold these immigrants.
Standard measures of accountability don't capture the progress made by students who have struggled at traditional schools.
The new requirement, which will be agreed upon formally in a federal court hearing Thursday morning, marks a win for Attorney General Lisa Madigan who had pushed for the new level of documentation as part of her ongoing negotiations with Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Tens of thousands of Californians have been registered to vote incorrectly by the state Department of Motor Vehicles, including some who were assigned the wrong political party preference, officials said Wednesday.
Immigration authorities want North Carolina elections officials to turn over nearly a decade’s worth of voting records by the end of the month.
More than 100 public school districts and universities, faced with the prospect that the next attacker may be among their own students, have hired social media monitoring companies over the past five years.
The LePage administration complied with a court order Tuesday and finally submitted required documents to the federal government to expand Medicaid to 70,000 Mainers, but there's a catch. Gov. Paul LePage -- an expansion opponent -- is asking federal officials to deny the application.
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