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Hawai'i Electric Light Co. officials said that some lower Puna customers will be experiencing extended power outages after lava damaged or destroyed more than 400 poles and other equipment in the area.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended the Constitution's privacy protection to include vehicles that are parked on a home's driveway or carport, ruling that police need a search warrant before they may inspect them.
The Supreme Court has refused -- for now -- to block an Arkansas abortion law that could prevent most women there from ending their early pregnancies with medication.
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens announced Tuesday he is stepping down effective at 5 p.m. Friday in the face of an impeachment effort, an adverse judicial ruling and multiple criminal investigations.
Handwritten words at the top of a retired teacher's letter to the White House in which she pointed out the Trump administration's mistakes in its original letter to her. “When you get letters from the highest level of government, you expect them to be at least mechanically correct,” she said in an interview.
Last time Wyoming let people hunt grizzly bears, which were a protected species in the Yellowstone region until last year. The state will resume grizzly hunting this fall.
Once again, abysmal turnout in primary elections underlines the need to re-think the fundamentals of how we hold elections.
The Florida city bills itself as a utopia for the environmentally conscious. After decades of planning, people are finally starting to move in.
A Bexar County homeowner did not violate a neighborhood association's restrictions on property use when he rented out his home to short-term visitors, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday.
Facebook and other social media companies should turn over users' public communications to criminal defendants in response to subpoenas, the California Supreme Court decided unanimously Thursday.
Gov. Larry Hogan vetoed three education bills Thursday, calling them "a crude attempt" to dilute accountability in Maryland public schools.
Oregon is serious about recycling. Its residents are accustomed to dutifully separating milk cartons, yogurt containers, cereal boxes and kombucha bottles from their trash to divert them from the landfill.
The FBI warned on Friday that Russian computer hackers had compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and could collect user information or shut down network traffic.
Residents, merchants and officials in Ellicott City on Monday began to examine the devastation wrought by floods that coursed through the historic mill town the night before _ the second time in less than two years.
The Trump administration’s bid to expand offshore drilling sounds like a sweet deal when the oil and gas industry sells it: more jobs, increased local revenue and possibly an energy surplus that could lower home heating costs.
A new survey provides a look at how states and localities are using gig workers.
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Michigan regulators want to eliminate lead service lines by 2040. But water utilities say that would be too costly, unrealistic and maybe even unnecessary.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, in an email to his staff. It was one of many released last week that reveal the mayor’s anger with the media and attempts to avoid them.
Portion of the U.S. population that has experienced 90 percent of the damage from major natural disasters.
The only eruption Hawaii's visitor industry had been anticipating a month ago was the possibility that the tourism juggernaut could shatter the 10-million visitor arrivals benchmark this year.
The high cost of housing seemed to sap Americans' taste for coastal cities last year as cities in Texas and Arizona gained more population than New York City or Los Angeles for the first time in a decade, according to census population estimates released Thursday.
On the same day Democrat Nate Boulton suspended his bid for governor, pressure was building Thursday inside and outside of his party for him to resign the Iowa Senate seat he has held since January 2017 in light of sexual misconduct allegations against him.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez has said repeatedly that the national party shouldn’t, and won’t, endorse in primaries. But on Thursday, he stood on a Long Island stage and endorsed Andrew Cuomo, the New York governor who is facing a challenge from actress Cynthia Nixon.
The decision to take no action against the police officers involved in the deadly shootings of Mario Woods and Luis Góngora Pat underscores what legal experts said is the inherently high bar prosecutors face in weighing criminal charges in fatal use-of-force episodes.
As Uber announced it would end its self-driving operations in Arizona, it announced that it would refocus its efforts on the program in Pittsburgh and San Francisco.
The expected number of Americans who won't have health insurance in 2027, which is 5 million higher than the Congressional Budget Office initially predicted. The increase is attributed to rising premiums and the end of Obamacare's individual mandate, which Congress revoked in December.
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, who has been outspoken about the need for gun control since a school shooting in his state this month left 10 people dead.
Several states are considering exemptions from Medicaid work requirements that would disproportionately impact black and white people.
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