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Some towns have tried to force certain big-box retailers to pay higher wages.
As states debate the purpose of public universities, some say politics is playing an outsized role.
Ambulances are expensive. Some cities are beginning to offer other ways to get to the hospital.
Recent election cycles have seen more than 40 percent of state legislative seats left uncontested. Not this year.
Our toughest problems can’t be solved unless we learn to work together.
They are despised by drivers and many lawmakers.
Bar-hopping party bikes, which let a dozen or more people pedal through popular destinations, don’t fit neatly under traffic laws.
Differences in wage laws and costs of living explain why they're more common in some places than others.
Federal Judge Ilana Rovner, a Republican appointee, in her ruling last week against the Trump administration's attempt to withhold funding from "sanctuary cities" that do not comply with all federal immigration enforcement.
Cost of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's official portrait, which is more than his three predecessors' portraits combined.
A felony invasion-of-privacy case against Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens will go on despite his attorneys' attempt to have it thrown out, a St. Louis judge ruled Thursday.
A somber and introspective Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross, under heavy criticism for the arrests of two 23-year-old Philadelphia men at a Starbucks near Rittenhouse Square a week ago and his defense of the police action, apologized to the men Thursday and said he had made the situation worse.
The agency that runs the $4 billion Central Arizona Project is being accused of manipulating Colorado River reservoirs' operations to suck out more water for its Tucson, Phoenix and Pinal County customers.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel called on President Donald Trump's Justice Department Thursday to hand over grant money to Chicago, after a panel of federal judges said the funds can't be withheld from so-called sanctuary cities.
A Downstate Republican lawmaker launched a third-party bid for governor on Thursday, exacerbating the challenges facing Gov. Bruce Rauner's re-election as he seeks to heal divisions within his party's base to take on Democrat J.B. Pritzker.
Alabama on Thursday night executed 83-year-old Walter Leroy Moody for the 1989 pipe bombing death of a federal judge. He became the oldest inmate executed in the United States since the return of executions in the 1970s.
In an angry tweet that appeared to contradict his Homeland Security chief, President Trump said Thursday that the federal government will refuse to pay California National Guard troops if they won't keep illegal immigrants from crossing the Mexican border.
Hundreds of displaced Puerto Rican families living in Florida hotels since Hurricane Maria devastated the island could be left homeless by the end of the week, federal lawmakers said Wednesday as they pleaded with FEMA to extend its temporary shelter program.
Vermont's newest candidate for governor is a high school teacher who says he wants to build "middle ground" in an era of political polarization.
Arizona educators and school employees fueling the teacher-led #RedForEd movement have voted in support of a walkout — an unprecedented action aimed at pressuring state leaders to act on their demands for more education funding.
Some places are losing more lawyers and accountants than factory workers.
In some states, the minimal requirements are leading to inaccurate reports of homicides and suicides.
In just one year, Rhode Island reduced the overdose death rate among former prisoners by 61 percent.
As out-of-staters flock to New Hampshire to stock up on alcohol, its neighboring states think so.
Estimate of annual online sales tax revenue that states are missing out on because the federal government bans them from collecting it. The Supreme Court heard a case this week that challenges that ban, but some of the justices raised concerns about ending it.
Sherleen Pike, who lives about a half-mile from the railroad track in Parrish, Ala., where a train carrying human waste from New York City has been parked for two months, waiting to be brought to a nearby landfill. The federal government bans New York from dumping its excrement in the ocean.
The new modern worker values happiness and career development when considering their job or career choice.
Two economists argue that they aren't. Instead, they say, policymakers should focus on larger employers.
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