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Peter Mlynarik in his resignation on Thursday as head of Alaska's Marijuana Control Board. The same day, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded an Obama-era policy that urged federal prosecutors not to prosecute people and businesses that comply with state marijuana laws.
Republican Del. David Yancey has won the tiebreaker drawing in the 94th District race.
To churn out more workers with marketable skills, an increasing number of states are offering residents free tuition to community colleges and technical schools.
Former Gov. Brendan T. Byrne, who left an enduring legacy in New Jersey that ranged from enacting the state's first income tax and the legalization of casino gambling to the development of the Meadowlands sports complex and preservation of the environmentally fragile Pine Barrens, died today.
Donna Wall cares for her three adult autistic children at her home in Lewiston, Maine. It’s a full-time job. Sons Christopher and Brandon have frequent outbursts, and the stress of tending to them can be overwhelming
The Department of Labor on Thursday released proposed new rules that proponents say will make it easier for businesses to band together in “associations” to buy health insurance.
Washington's state attorney general sued Motel 6 on Wednesday, accusing the hotel chain of illegally giving information on thousands of guests to immigration enforcement officials who did not have warrants and who scrutinized guests with Latino-sounding names.
With President Donald Trump’s recent endorsement in his back pocket, Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis on Friday will announce he’s entering the governor’s race, a move poised to inject national cash into a campaign already on the 2018 national radar.
In a Fox News interview last week, Acting ICE Director Thomas Homan said he believes they should be charged with crimes. Legal experts say that's likely not possible.
The Trump administration, inviting a political backlash from coastal state leaders, on Thursday proposed to open for exploration the largest expanse of the nation's offshore oil and natural gas reserves ever offered to global energy companies, including waters off the coast of California.
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It is time for local governments across the nation to integrate their municipal websites with an accessibility automation remediation solution for enhanced compliance, without additional workflows.
Annual increase in Wyoming's revenue from leasing land to oil and gas companies. The hike is largely due to rebounding oil prices, which hit record lows in 2016, and the Trump administration being friendlier to oil and gas companies than Obama. The state, however, still faces a more than $700 million budget gap.
Tweet from the Colorado Senate Democrats after news broke on Thursday that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions would rescind an Obama-era policy urging federal prosecutors not to prosecute people and businesses that comply with state marijuana laws.
Jeff Sessions' announcement attracted bipartisan criticism. But some legal experts are skeptical of its impact, and several states have vowed to continue their marijuana markets or plans for one.
Services at the Coachella Valley Church begin and end with the Lord’s Prayer. In between, there is the sacrament.
Six U.S. senators have filed a bipartisan bill that would provide grants to states to help them move from paperless voting machines to paper ballots in an effort to make voting systems less vulnerable to hackers.
The winner of the 94th House District race will be chosen at random by drawing names Thursday in Richmond.
A massive winter storm described as a violent "bomb cyclone" continued to move up the East Coast on Thursday, shutting schools, canceling flights, knocking out power and sparking fears of coastal flooding.
The city of Charlottesville, Va., on Tuesday night chose the first African-American woman to serve as its mayor, less than six months after a deadly white nationalist rally in the city made national headlines.
Gov. Paul LePage had a one-sentence response to a 16-year-old who wrote to him worried about the repeal of net neutrality rules: Read a book.
The state's Medicaid program will cover treatment visits for people struggling with obesity in 2019 with the hopes it will improve health outcomes for Delawareans.
President Donald Trump has dissolved a commission intended to investigate voter fraud after a massive data request by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach led to a backlash from state officials across the political spectrum.
Housing experts predict that the tax overhaul will spur home values and property tax revenues to drop, forcing cities to find new ways to raise money -- or to cut spending.
There's a lot at risk when people in government use their private accounts for public business.
Sign illegally posted below an official "Welcome to California" highway sign. It has since been removed. On Jan. 1, a new state law took effect that, among other things, bans jails from detaining undocumented immigrants solely at the request of federal immigration authorities.
There are a lot of things we could be doing to smooth the ups and downs for today's just-in-time workforce.
Coal mine workers who died on the job last year -- up from nine the year before, which was a record low.
More than a dozen cases on partisan and racial gerrymandering are winding their way through the court system. Two cases, in particular, could become two of the most important this decade.
Governor Kate Brown appointed Adrienne Nelson to the Oregon Supreme Court on Tuesday, marking the first time an African American has served on the high court in the state's 158-year history.
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