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Portland city commissioners made permanent on Wednesday a program that requires landlords to pay renters' moving costs if they are evicted without cause or are forced to move because of a rent increase of 10 percent or more.
A wave of Texas women candidates won or made it to runoffs in more than 50 primary races statewide amid a surge of interest in running for office among women around the country.
For the second time in less than a week, a storm rolled into the Northeast with wet, heavy snow Wednesday, grounding flights, closing schools and bringing another round of power outages to a corner of the country still recovering from the previous blast of winter.
A long-simmering battle between the Trump administration and California over immigration boiled over Wednesday, with Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions deriding the state's "irrational, unfair and unconstitutional policies" and Gov. Jerry Brown accusing the federal government of launching "a reign of terror."
California's three new "sanctuary" laws, challenged in court this week by the Trump administration, face different hurdles and have varying vulnerabilities, legal experts said Wednesday.
A bill prohibiting domestic abusers and people under restraining orders from owning firearms became America’s first new gun control law since the Feb. 14 Florida high school massacre.
It can be tough politically, but it's critical to reinventing how we govern.
In a fundraising letter that calls him "a truly remarkable man of God," gubernatorial candidate Bill O'Neill is staking out his position as an anti-abortion candidate in the Democratic primary.
Florida's bill to arm some school workers, raise the age to buy a gun and take guns from people who pose a threat now rests in Gov. Rick Scott's hands.
Maximum jail sentence for restaurant workers who provide customers with an unwanted straw, according to a bill introduced in California. The bill's sponsor, Ian Calderon, said it was a drafting error.
Jef Pollock, a pollster for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on the prospect of actress Cynthia Nixon winning the Democratic gubernatorial primary if she enters -- a move she is reportedly weighing.
The success of the statewide walkout, which ended on Wednesday, could spur similar movements across the country at a time when the fate of unions is in the Supreme Court's hands.
In the GOP civil war between populists and centrists, populists gained ground in Tuesday's elections that kicked off the year's primary season.
President Trump's "Buy American" policies are expected to cause the most harm to states such as Florida, Michigan and Texas.
When an agency head leaves, some states take years to find a permanent replacement. What takes so long?
By engaging residents on issues of climate and weather, it demonstrates how program design can be improved and strengthened.
TAMPA, Fla. — In an opioid epidemic that is killing more than a hundred Americans every day, many families of overdose victims feel helpless when it comes to convincing their loved ones to seek treatment.
As polls opened in the Texas primaries on Tuesday, The Texas Tribune laid out seven key questions for election night. Now that the smoke is clearing, here are the answers:
We won't Uber our way out of traffic congestion. What's needed is a system to integrate all transportation options.
With more than 100 orange-clad gun control advocates in the Capitol demanding action, Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday signed a bill banning a device that can make a semi-automatic rifle fire so fast it mimics a machine gun.
Incumbent Miro Weinberger will be mayor of Burlington for the next three years, as he handily won a third term in an election that saw high turnout and two challengers from his left who criticized his administration's transparency and willingness to listen to the people.
A House committee rejected by a 7-4 margin a bill that would create a restraining order that could restrict access to guns for people at risk of shooting themselves or others.
The Trump administration, seeking to force a defiant California to cooperate with its agenda of stepped-up immigrant deportations, went to federal court Tuesday to invalidate three state laws -- the administration's most direct challenge yet to the state's policies.
Gov. Jim Justice signed into law a 5 percent pay raise for public school teachers and school service personnel Tuesday that appears to mark the end of the nine-school-day statewide strike.
Only a small number of regions employ many steel and aluminum workers, and economically depressed areas the proposal aims to benefit could experience hardship in other industries.
A health crisis in Alabama led officials to an unconventional solution: Hand out cash to change citizen behavior.
Money raised by an online fundraiser started in memory of Philando Castile that is being used to pay all of the school lunch debt for public schools in St. Paul. Castile was fatally shot by a Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop in 2016.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, on when President Trump tweeted about him. The Republican, who's also running for governor, apparently likes to brag that he's the only candidate who Trump has tweeted about twice.
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry resigned Tuesday after pleading guilty to felony theft charges.
One state's plan to require people kicked off Medicaid to take a course on personal finance addresses a problem that doesn't exist.
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