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Washington state Rep. Drew Hansen, who introduced a wide-reaching net neutrality bill that would maintain all the protections the FCC rolled back. The question of whether states have the right to do that will likely end up in court.
The firings follow a long and ongoing saga between independent agencies and the GOP-controlled legislature.
School shootings in the U.S. since Jan. 1 of this year -- the most recent being on Tuesday in Benton, Ky., where a 15-year-old killed two students and injured 12 other people.
Billionaire investor J.B. Pritzker and state Sen. Daniel Biss tried to change the dynamics of the Illinois Democratic governor's race Tuesday night, attacking each other during the first televised debate and relegating businessman Chris Kennedy largely to the sidelines.
Gov. Paul LePage has nominated a Nestle Waters' executive to the body that oversees environmental protection in Maine, drawing the ire of the company's critics.
After a year in which overdoses outstripped the murder rate by 4-1, librarians ran outside to save people from overdosing, and makeshift heroin camps sprawled under bridges and on street corners, Philadelphia city officials Tuesday took their most radical step yet against the opioid crisis.
San Francisco has a new interim mayor: moderate Supervisor Mark Farrell.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to remove Christopher Columbus' name from his commemorative day in October, and instead honor the indigenous people living in California long before it was discovered by European explorers.
In his Democratic race for Maryland governor, Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker’s latest endorsement comes from his neighboring county’s executive.
A second woman has accused Wyoming Secretary of State Ed Murray of sexual misconduct. Theresa Sullivan Twiford said that nearly 30 years ago, when she was 18 years old and babysitting for the Murray family, Ed Murray forcibly kissed her in front of his house.
For the first time in seven years, Flint's local officials are in control of the city's daily finances and government decisions.
The South and the West continued to outpace the rest of the country as overall job growth slowed in 2017.
The Jackman Select Board voted unanimously on Tuesday morning to fire the town manager, whose support of racial segregation and condemnation of Islam put the town in what most locals saw as an unflattering light.
A drug wholesaler flooded Kentucky counties with millions of prescription painkillers even as overdose deaths were on the rise, state Attorney General Andy Beshear charged in a lawsuit filed Monday in Franklin Circuit Court.
President Donald Trump's now disbanded voter fraud commission sought voter records from Texas state officials that flagged Hispanic voters, The Washington Post reported Monday.
With New Jersey's announcement that it will rejoin a multistate compact to limit carbon emissions, 2018 could be a banner year for cap and trade in the states -- even if the idea is dead in Washington.
Some say South Florida's Brightline can serve as a model for infrastructure development. But first, it has to be completed and prove it can make money.
The president's "America First" message and his new trade barriers have caused anxiety in states where the economy depends on investment from abroad. It's pushing governors to hone their diplomatic skills.
Public-sector unions are becoming more altruistic. They may need to be.
Time between Hawaii Gov. David Ige learning that the nuclear attack notification was false and alerting the public. The reason for the delay? He did not know his Twitter password.
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, referring to the bill that legalizes marijuana for recreational use. Vermont is the first state where legalization occurred through the legislature rather than through the voters.
It's a big election year, and legislative agendas won’t be focused on raising revenue.
California utility regulators on Friday finally approved a statewide map, years in development, designed to help prevent power lines from starting wildfires.
Rebeca Gonzalez grew up eating artichokes from her grandmother’s farm in the central Mexican state of Tlaxcala. But for years after emigrating to the U.S., she did not feed them to her own kids because the spiky, fibrous vegetables were too expensive on this side of the border.
Akron Public Schools board member John Otterman, who overdosed last week and was administered four doses of an opiate overdose reversal drug, resigned Monday after a long-documented history with illicit drugs.
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló says he is moving to sell off the U.S. territory's public power company, as nearly a third of the island's electric customers remain without power four months after Hurricane Maria struck the island on Sept. 20.
The Supreme Court put partygoers on notice Monday that they may be lawfully arrested if they show up at a loud and wild party where they do not know the host.
Gov. David Ige told reporters today that part of the delay in notifying the public that the Jan. 13 ballistic missile alert was a false alarm was that he did not know his Twitter account password.
In a move certain to upend state politics and the critical 2018 elections, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Monday that the state's congressional map "clearly, plainly, and palpably" violates the state constitution and blocked its use in the May primaries.
For the first time, a U.S. state has legalized marijuana with the stroke of a pen, not a vote at the ballot box.
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