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No mayor has ever sprung directly from City Hall to the White House.
It has become the “deplorables” moment of the Georgia governor’s race.
Chicago police on Sunday released a snippet of video of a fatal police shooting less than a day after it sparked violent clashes between officers and protesters on the South Side.
About 9,000 Metro workers could soon go on a three-day strike.
After helping a dozen cities implement policy innovations through the City Accelerator initiative, these experts offer some best practices.
Maine Gov. Paul LePage, in a radio interview, defending his refusal to expand Medicaid even though his state's voters approved a ballot measure last year to do so -- and even though a judge ruled that he had to.
Increase in primary voter turnout among California Democrats from the 2014 midterms to today's. Republican turnout comparatively rose 45 percent in the state. These numbers reflect general trends of Democratic participation climbing more than Republicans'.
What if everyone got a paycheck that they didn't work for? It's called universal basic income, and with the help of tech entrepreneurs, Stockton, Calif., is the latest city to test it.
Despite receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer money, Medicaid insurers are lax in ferreting out fraud and neglect to tell states about unscrupulous medical providers, according to a federal report released Thursday.
By the end of the year, the Transportation Research Center in East Liberty will open the first portion of what will be world's biggest autonomous vehicle testing facility.
No tarps, no cots, and less than 200 blue roofs.
Just before a wave of violence turned Baltimore into the nation’s deadliest big city, a curious thing happened to its police force: officers suddenly seemed to stop noticing crime.
An elected state House representative for Arizona’s 5th District, Paul Mosley, bragged to a sheriff’s deputy that he drives at speeds of up to 140 miles per hour, claiming legislative immunity.
Gov. Mary Fallin has signed emergency rules regulating Oklahoma's medical marijuana industry a day after they were introduced by the State Board of Health.
A national trade group representing drug distributors is suing New York in an attempt to block a new law that holds its members financially responsible for the havoc wrought by the opioid epidemic.
“As with every election year, all eyes are on Florida.”
They have become more competitive in three states -- all where Republicans are currently in power.
In the 10 states holding races, only one looks competitive.
Just over two weeks since the Janus ruling, about a third of the affected states have taken actions meant to soften its impact on unions' membership and revenue.
Most states don't know how much they spend on extreme weather events.
Linda J. Smith, a breastfeeding advocate, describing the strategy she used on Ohio lawmakers considering a bill to allow public breastfeeding to help them understand why it's something new mothers want to do. The bill eventually passed.
Settlement the state of Missouri is paying a female prison guard who says she was sexually harassed and poisoned by male coworkers.
User training and the latest cybersecurity tools are worthwhile, but there is no panacea.
Louisville is pioneering an approach that aims to make purchasing and contracting a key ingredient in successfully delivering services.
Search and rescue task forces need to deploy at a moment's notice, and they have to be ready for any challenges they may encounter.
Doing more to help fund urban needs is good for their workers and their profitability. Some communities are insisting that they step up.
The law firms and individual lawyers waging a fierce fight over a secret grand jury report detailing sexual abuse by Catholic clergy across the state have together donated more than $180,000 to the campaigns of the Supreme Court justices now weighing whether to release the report, records show.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk set off a tweet storm on the Flint water crisis Wednesday by suggesting he'd be willing to put some of his fortune on the line to help out families in Flint.
The Trump administration this spring tried to remove pro-breastfeeding language from a World Health Organization resolution. But here at home, breastfeeding has steadily become more accepted and accessible — culminating this year in the 49th and 50th states enacting laws to allow it in public.
Contra Costa County is severing its contract with the federal government to incarcerate undocumented migrants at a jail in Richmond, a pact that had drawn increasing attention and protests as the Trump administration intensified its crackdown on illegal immigration.
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