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In the wake of the Larry Nassar scandal, lawmakers in Lansing called Thursday for legislation to ensure that sexual abuse complaints are never ignored again and two legislators sent a subpoena to MSU demanding records of complaints filed against Nassar over a three-year period.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday it was withdrawing a provision of the Clean Air Act that requires a major source of pollution like a power plant to always be treated as a major source, even if it makes changes to reduce emissions.
The U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Early Warning System director announced today that the preliminary phase of its rollout will begin this year in California, Oregon and Washington.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has less than a week left in office before he resigns to take a job in President Donald Trump's administration.
The state joins a small but growing movement to curb the practice of incarcerating low-risk offenders who can't afford bail.
Cost of driving on I-66 in Northern Virginia one morning last week. That toll price -- which is set by demand and traffic volumes, and changes every six minutes -- was a record high.
Califorina Gov. Jerry Brown, in his final State of the State address on Thursday, defending the cost of the high-speed rail project, which was recently raised by $2.8 billion.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday issued an executive order intended to strengthen net neutrality in New York by prohibiting state government contracts with internet companies that do not honor the rules that were unraveled last month by the Federal Communications Commission.
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California and environmental and tribal groups sued the Trump administration in San Francisco federal court Wednesday seeking to enforce Obama administration regulations of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for oil and gas wells on hundreds of millions of acres of federally managed lands.
The office of Ohio Gov. John Kasich, and her own appointment calendar, dispute Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor's assertion that she has not talked to the governor in more than a year.
Gov. Paul LePage imposed a moratorium on new wind energy projects in western and coastal Maine on Wednesday while establishing a secretive commission to study how wind turbines impact the state's tourism economy.
Mayors across the country are counting on voters to act on their frustration with Washington and state capitals — by electing them instead.
Oregon's Medicaid program survived intact Tuesday, after voters approved hundreds of millions of dollars in health care taxes in a special election.
Senate Minority Leader Ray Jones called Wednesday for an armed guard in every Kentucky public school following a deadly shooting Tuesday at Marshall County High School.
Kansas Republican Sam Brownback, one of the most unpopular governors in the country, barely survived a vote to confirm his bid for a big Trump administration job on Wednesday, as Vice President Mike Pence broke two ties that kept his nomination alive.
After outraising every Democrat in the race, independent Greg Orman officially launched his bid for Kansas governor Wednesday.
Architecture students transformed an old bank into a library for Newbern, Ala.
Fiscal equalization offers three lessons in local tax policy and regional prosperity.
The organization some refer to as "the Peace Corps for geeks" has launched a major effort to improve the way people apply for benefits.
There are a lot of big issues facing officials in 2018. The biggest is funding.
Online shopping and the automation of jobs are going to transform cities.
Efforts to bring back passenger trains are happening all over. We need them.
It's difficult to put a price tag on global warming, but the effort can help manage risks.
That’s what many Iowans, home to the state with the fewest mental health beds, are asking candidates for governor.
Obamacare isn’t the reason they’re going up. It’s state policies.
The first lawsuit fighting the Trump-approved policy was filed this week. If a court sides with opponents, work requirements could be dead before they even begin.
Can Alabama’s capital honor both civil rights and the Confederacy? It thinks so.
The state rolled back criminal justice reforms it had adopted only a year earlier. Other parts of the country are also reconsidering similar changes.
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