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Gov. Butch Otter assembled a large group of backers as he signed the school threats bill into law Friday.
A new study is the latest to show that landlords often discriminate against minorities and people who use rental vouchers.
Last time the Community Development Block Grant program received a significant increase in funding until last week. Despite President Trump's proposal to eliminate the program, the federal spending bill gives it $300 million more.
A poorly received joke from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo at a majority-black church in Harlem this weekend.
The expectation for government HR managers to do more with less isn’t a temporary adjustment. It is the new normal.
About 17,461 Detroit households are at risk for water shutoffs next month when the city's water department resumes its controversial program, the Free Press has learned.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, signed into law a bill which will limit the number of youth who can be tried as adults in criminal courts.
From California to Vermont, mobile methadone vans have served people with opioid addiction in rural towns and underserved inner-city neighborhoods for nearly three decades.
The federal government will spend a record $4.6 billion this year to fight the nation’s deepening opioid crisis, which killed 42,000 Americans in 2016.
Tears rolled down Emma Gonzalez's face as she stood in silence.
A proposed ban on assault weapons was introduced in the Delaware General Assembly on Thursday, the latest and likely most contested bill among a slew of gun control measures being debated by state lawmakers this year.
Maryland gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous has received an endorsement from Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), adding to the list of nationally-known progressives who are backing his bid for governor.
The three largest groups representing human services agencies and nonprofits say the phrase hurts their work -- and society at large.
The transit agency has long been divided along regional lines. But it looks like local leaders may be able to put aside those differences to provide the troubled agency with long-term funding.
Zell Miller, a former two-term governor and U.S. senator who gave birth to Georgia's HOPE scholarship, has died at the age of 86, his family said Friday in a statement.
According to Vogue anyway.
Chief information officers and chief financial officers haven’t always gotten along. That’s not true anymore.
Should you really need a license to teach hair braiding?
Most of the problems are rooted in false or missing data.
Hiring police officers is much harder than it used to be. To stay competitive, some are offering generous pay increases and bonuses.
It’s not about how successful any business is but what the city has left after it leaves.
Publicly owned internet networks are giving some rural regions an advantage over even the techiest big cities.
It’s largely up to states to regulate these facilities -- many of which don’t even employ full-time nurses.
"I can count on one hand the number of top [legislative] leaders who have successfully run for major statewide office."
Salary for the governor of Maine, which is the lowest in the country. The current one, Paul LePage, has proposed doubling it -- to $150,000.
Nathan Collier, a polygamist who lost a lawsuit he filed after a Montana county refused to grant him a second marriage license. He said he went to court to fight for people's freedom to choose their own families -- not promote polygamy.
The problems associated with legalizing marijuana are seen on a much bigger scale in the state.
Indiana lawmakers will have to establish a sexual harassment policy for themselves for the first time after Gov. Eric Holcomb signed into law a new measure Thursday aimed at preventing unwelcome sexual advances at the Statehouse.
At first, Honolulu 911 operators were just telling people to turn on CNN, because they, too, had no idea whether a ballistic missile was really about to blow up the state.
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