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When he looks back at what the Austin bomber "did to our community, he was a domestic terrorist for what he did to us," Interim Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said at a panel discussion Thursday that focused on how police, the media and the community responded to the Austin bombings.
Utah has adopted a "free-range parenting" law, the first state in the country to formalize the hands-off child-rearing trend.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, during a hearing this week, casting doubt on the feasibility of setting a legal standard for partisan gerrymandering -- in other words, determining how much politics would be too much in a process that is itself inherently political.
Rate at which researchers say opioid-related overdose deaths are undercounted in America.
Oklahoma is now the second state to reverse course on tax cuts in favor of boosting teacher pay. Will Arizona be next?
Utah and Virginia are both closer than ever to making more low-income people eligible for free or low-cost health care. What made them change their minds?
Under a new leaked version of the rule reportedly being considered, use of government benefits -- with few exceptions -- could hurt an immigrant's chances of becoming a permanent legal resident.
Photos and musings from our photographer David Kidd.
Baltimore's 911 system and a range of city services in Atlanta were hijacked in the past week.
Many advocates say the deadly bridge collapse in Florida and driverless car incident in Arizona show how poorly transportation networks handle pedestrians.
A measure banning licensed therapists from trying to change a minor’s sexual orientation or gender identity was signed into law Wednesday by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.
Seattle's law requiring landlords to choose among qualified applicants on a first-come, first-served basis violates the state constitution, a judge ruled Wednesday.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday, March 27 to join a Trump administration lawsuit against California's controversial sanctuary law.
In its call for 'transformative' projects, it has some ideas that are worth paying attention to.
Capital is important, but so are ecosystems that reward innovation and thrive on diversity.
The thriving Canadian municipality of Mississauga is harnessing innovative technology and stakeholder buy-in to become a model for connected communities.
Hundreds of protesters headed toward Golden 1 Center in downtown Sacramento and blocked its entrance Tuesday night for the second time in a week, preventing Kings fans from attending an NBA game as the protesters called for action in the police shooting of Stephon Clark.
President Donald Trump has encouraged police officers to be rougher on suspects they arrest. He has deployed federal authorities to stem gun violence in Chicago. And he has repeatedly called for police nationwide to implement tough-on-crime policies.
Gov. Murphy greatly expanded New Jersey's medical marijuana program Tuesday, opening the door to tens of thousands of new patients and allowing the five dispensaries spread across the state to add satellite retail centers and cultivation facilities.
Gov. Jim Justice signed into law Tuesday a measure to limit the duration of opioid prescriptions issued in West Virginia -- the state with the highest overdose death rate in the nation.
It's up to lawmakers to provide the funding that's needed and to back reforms that make the system work better.
The Arizona Attorney General is calling on Facebook to lead an industry-wide transformation to protect personal data online, and demanding answers on how Arizonans have been affected by breaches.
A judge on Tuesday ordered Gov. Rick Scott and the Cabinet to dismantle Florida’s “fatally flawed” system of arbitrarily restoring voting rights to felons and to replace it by April 26.
Gov. Scott Walker won't appeal to the Wisconsin Supreme Court an appellate decision denying his request for eight more days to call a special election in two vacant legislative seats.
It's meant to help property owners afford energy-efficiency upgrades. But some have concerns over lending standards and consumer protections.
Susan Voss, Iowa’s former insurance commissioner, criticizing the state's plan to offer health coverage that doesn't comply with the Affordable Care Act. The state argues that it would be legal because association health plans are technically not considered "health insurance."
Federal health and human services funding that 37 states lost in 2015 for each person missed in the 2010 Census. With the Trump administration planning to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, many officials are worried immigrants will not take the survey.
The justices heard arguments on Wednesday in a Maryland case that could, for the first time, limit partisan gerrymandering. They didn't appear to have a consensus on how to address the problem.
In the 36 gubernatorial races this fall, all but 10 of the states are currently led by Republicans.
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