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The California city, known for its out-there policies, will be the nation's first to issue municipal bonds using cryptocurrency.
Already short-staffed and underfunded, these offices have been hit hard by the opioid crisis.
Coachella, Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza may be better known, but this festival has been going strong since 1924.
Any blue wave would have to be pretty big to threaten these popular Republican incumbent governors.
Justice Goodwin Liu, in the California Supreme Court's unanimous ruling requiring employers to pay workers for tasks they regularly perform before or after their regular work hours.
People in Florida ordered to surrender their guns since March, when a state law took effect that lets judges revoke weapons from people deemed a threat to themselves or others. The law was passed in the wake of the Parkland school shooting.
Before it goes on vacation, the U.S. Senate could significantly cut child welfare funding in states with anti-discrimination policies protecting LGBT people who want to adopt or foster.
An employee at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has won the first refund of mandatory union fees stemming from last month's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that public employees cannot be required to pay unions dues or fees if they opt out of membership.
Hoping to head off a full expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, some senior officials in the Trump administration and Republican governors have been pushing hard for a smaller expansion to satisfy a growing political demand in their states.
While lawmakers last month rejected adding more medical marijuana dispensaries in the state, one surviving component of the legislation has quietly begun: sales to out-of-state residents.
Amid a still-boiling legal battle over a secret grand jury report into alleged Catholic clergy sex abuse across Pennsylvania, Attorney General Josh Shapiro has appealed to Pope Francis to step in and persuade opponents to drop their bid to block the report's release.
After a Texas group last week posted "blueprints" that allow people to make their own guns with the use of a 3D-print, Pennsylvania and New Jersey joined eight other states Monday in a legal bid to keep their residents from accessing the files.
Hennepin County prosecutors will not charge the two police officers who fatally shot Thurman Blevins, a decision announced Monday hours after just-released body camera footage showed the deadly encounter in a north Minneapolis alley.
Here's an interesting twist -- two conservative Republican governors are actually strengthening Obamacare in their states.
Mayor Kenney won't renew a controversial city contract that allows federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to access a key law-enforcement database, known as PARS, and use that information against undocumented but otherwise law-abiding immigrants in Philadelphia.
Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, has vetoed the two bills the Legislature passed earlier this week that would affect November's midterm elections.
The police chief in a small Eastern North Carolina town was arrested Thursday, along with one of his lieutenants, and charged with corruption and other crimes, according to multiple news reports.
The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled that the Ann Arbor and Clio school districts have a right to ban guns from their schools -- in a closely watched case that deals a blow to gun rights advocates who had argued state law prohibits schools from enacting such policies.
For public safety managers in communities at risk of wildfire activity, citizen communications and education are two critical components of a wildfire preparedness strategy.
States that have pre-Roe v. Wade bans on abortion still on the books. They cannot currently be enforced, but the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy has sparked a movement to wipe them clean in case the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade in the future.
Thurman Blevins, an armed black man, while running away from Minneapolis police, who fatally shot him in a residential alley seconds later. His death sparked protests and prompted the city to release body camera footage of the shooting faster than normal.
Public Service is an honorable career. Employees, regardless of their generation, take pride in adding value in their workplace and community.
When hackers took over two-thirds of D.C. police’s surveillance cameras days before the 2017 presidential inauguration, it appeared that the cyberattack was limited to elicit a single ransom payment.
A federal judge in Madison has ordered the state to pay for surgeries that two transgender Medicaid recipients need to treat their gender dysphoria.
A group of 11 states and Washington, D.C., are suing the Trump administration in an attempt to roll back a regulation that allowed for the expansion of certain health plans that skirt ObamaCare regulations.
That's the hope of Mayor de Blasio, who is launching yet another fund-raising effort to further his national progressive agenda -- this time, a federal political action committee dubbed Fairness PAC that will also pick up the tab for his political travels.
Visitors to the Colorado state capitol building can wander down a hall and gaze at portraits of the presidents of the United States.
Known as both the "father of Texas" and the namesake of the state's capital, Stephen F. Austin carved out the early outlines of Texas among his many accomplishments.
The New York chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) on Sunday announced their endorsement of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon.
Minneapolis police body-camera video released Sunday night shows officers repeatedly warning an armed Thurman Blevins to put his hands up as they chased him through a North Side residential neighborhood last month and then fatally shot him in an alley.
