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Rep. Diane Black announced Wednesday that she plans to step aside as House Budget chairwoman to focus on her gubernatorial campaign.
The cities of San Francisco, New York and Philadelphia filed a sweeping federal lawsuit Tuesday accusing the U.S. Department of Defense of failing to live up to its legal duty to notify the FBI when a member of the military is convicted of a crime that would bar them from buying or possessing firearms.
A federal court judge in Utah has adopted new voting district boundaries in San Juan County which could reverse the historic political domination by whites over Navajos there.
Democrat Shelly Simonds says elections officials didn't follow procedure in a recount that could swing the balance of power in the House of Delegates, and she will ask a court to declare her the winner of the 94th District race, according to court documents she plans to file Wednesday.
A U.S. appeals court in Washington on Tuesday upheld a lower court’s decision to allow President Donald Trump’s commission investigating voter fraud to request data on voter rolls from U.S. states.
There are risks, and there still must be accountability. But some leaders have shown the way.
Any new windfall for states is certain to set off a battle in legislatures about how to spend it.
A major bike share company is rolling out a new service that it says offers the best of both dock-based and dockless systems.
Basic steps to prevent infections — such as washing hands, isolating contagious patients and keeping ill nurses and aides from coming to work — are routinely ignored in the nation’s nursing homes, endangering residents and spreading hazardous germs.
Hawaii's cannabis industry is facing more setbacks as the state struggles with an understaffed program.
Gov. Wolf accepted the resignation of the chairman of the state Board of Education on Thursday after the Inquirer and Daily News reported that a number of women said he had pursued sexual relationships with them when they were teenagers and he was years their senior.
Michigan school employees got an early Christmas present Wednesday from the Michigan Supreme Court, which ruled that the state has to refund $554 million that was taken from them during the height of the last recession.
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley has launched an investigation into whether Gov. Eric Greitens and his staff illegally destroyed public records by using an app that erases text messages.
A day after President Donald Trump said the Affordable Care Act “has been repealed,” officials reported that 8.8 million Americans have signed up for coverage on the federal insurance exchange in 2018 — nearly reaching 2017’s number in half the sign-up time.
Congress averted a government shutdown Thursday by approving a short-term spending bill, but an $81 billion disaster aid bill died in the Senate after winning passage in the House.
Colorado lawmakers on Thursday approved emergency funds to keep alive a health insurance program for children and pregnant women, amid concerns that a short-term extension of the program's funding OK'd by Congress won't arrive soon enough to help.
According to a new report, 2017 will have continued a steady long-term downward trend in crime rates.
Photos and musings from our photographer David Kidd.
Local governments. But they’re not just doing it for the money.
After years of fighting the post-9/11 law that added security standards for ID cards, states seem to be on board. It's going to cost them, though.
In local government, success is defined by what you leave behind.
Photos and musings from our photographer David Kidd.
It makes rational sense, but people find many reasons to be wary -- even high school football rivalries.
It’s already hard to count certain residents. But this time around, it could be particularly difficult.
Photos and musings from our photographer David Kidd.
As rents and demand for renting increase, millions of Americans are being evicted -- sometimes with only a few days' notice.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
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