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China's restrictions have certainly had an impact, but there's plenty that local governments can do to keep it viable.
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jared Polis just showed the perks of being rich. The self-funding tech millionaire Wednesday announced his first jaw-dropping television ad buy: $3 million for October.
Two decades ago, Frederick Veazey was drawn to this suburban idyll by the usual things: grass, peace and quiet, good schools. But in choosing where to raise his sons and daughter, the successful insurance broker also wanted something else.
Gov. Charlie Baker has signed a law to improve the way doctors diagnose and care for Alzheimer's patients.
The governors of New York and New Jersey have declared states of emergency in multiple areas following damage from flash flooding over the past few days.
According to a study released Thursday from the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the computerized system streamlined the city's complex high school admissions process in its first year.
Los Angeles County's rail system will be the first in the United States to deploy body scanners that can detect suicide vests and other improvised explosives, transportation officials said Tuesday.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday sought to deride President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan, saying the nation "was never that great."
Jack Phillips, whose refusal to make a custom wedding cake for a gay couple went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, is back in the news with another discrimination complaint filed against the Lakewood baker.
Several cities and transit agencies have been working with the TSA to test the security devices.
Courts have ruled that access to public figures on social media is a constitutional right.
Louisiana has "stopped the bleeding," but political observers point out that the financially strained state still has several major spending problems.
In the span of five months, the state says it tripled the amount it was saving by privatizing Medicaid.
The beverage industry used a tactic that could become more common with other interest groups.
It's just a block away from the U.S. Capitol.
Babies die at higher rates in the U.S. than in poorer countries like Cuba and Poland.
It’s widely assumed that the Janus ruling dealt public-sector unions a major blow. But the numbers may play out differently.
Former Kasim Reed aide Katrina Taylor-Parks became the second high-ranking Atlanta official to plead guilty in the federal corruption investigation of City Hall Wednesday.
New York is suing Purdue Pharma, the maker of a popular painkiller, for allegedly downplaying the risks and overstating the benefits of its opioid products, whose abuse has fueled a nationwide epidemic of addiction and overdose deaths.
Georgia Duerst-Lahti, a political scientist at Beloit College in Wisconsin.
Time it took an 11-year-old to hack into a replica of Florida’s election results website at a convention. During that brief period, he was able to manipulate names and votes.
Top computer researchers gave a startling presentation recently about how to intercept and switch votes on emailed ballots, but officials in the 30 or so states said the ease with which votes could be changed wouldn’t alter their plans to continue offering electronic voting in some fashion.
Three consumer groups are suing the Trump administration in an effort to halt the implementation of work requirements in Arkansas' Medicaid program.
The Governor of Florida issued a state of emergency in response to this year’s excessive red tide, the toxic algae bloom spreading across the West Coast of the Sunshine State and leaving beaches covered with piles of dead marine wildlife.
A day after saying she planned to continue running for a state House seat despite revelations that she lied about having a degree from Miami University and went to great lengths to deceive people, Melissa Howard reversed course Tuesday and dropped out of a contest that has received national attention.
Top Roman Catholic leaders in Pennsylvania routinely covered up child sex abuse by hundreds of priests, involving more than 1,000 victims over seven decades, according to a long-awaited grand jury report released Tuesday.
Tony Evers won an eight-way Democratic primary Tuesday, setting up a November showdown between the state's education chief and GOP Gov. Scott Walker.
Jeff Johnson shocked the Minnesota political world Tuesday with a commanding victory in the Republican primary for governor, while U.S. Rep. Tim Walz won a three-way race in the DFL primary, setting up a clash of starkly different visions for the state's future.
In a repudiation of the GOP's nominating process for governor, outsider Bob Stefanowski became the first petition candidate in Connecticut history to win a major party's nomination for statewide office Tuesday, besting the endorsed Republican, longtime Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton.
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