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Last month's election has re-energized Obamacare advocates. Meanwhile in Maine, the matter is being complicated by Gov. Paul LePage, who has vowed not to implement an expansion until lawmakers show how they'll fund it.
Mike DuHaime, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s top political adviser, referring to the time that Christie embraced then-President Obama in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.
Time before a train in Tokyo was scheduled to take off but left the station anyway. The early departure didn't elicit complaints from customers, but the rail company still issued an apology.
The FBI and federal prosecutors are investigating police conduct during protests after September's acquittal of the St. Louis officer for a fatal 2011 shooting.
A veteran Chicago police officer was sentenced to five years in prison Monday for firing 16 times into a moving vehicle filled with teens, wounding two.
The former head of the Pennsylvania Department of State didn't resign on his own but appears to have been ousted by Gov. Wolf, according to newly released documents.
Controversy continued to grow Monday over a close House of Delegates race in the Fredericksburg region that could determine control of the chamber.
TransCanada Corp. won Nebraska's permission to build its long-delayed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline across the state.
In the early hours after a massive Monday night fire in the Orion Township-Auburn Hills area knocked out the 911 system for the Oakland County Sheriff's Office, the phone system has been restored.
Miami-Dade and Chicago sit on opposite sides of the debate over sanctuary cities under President Donald Trump: The largest government in South Florida won praise from the president himself for agreeing to detain immigration violators at local jails, while the Windy City is suing the Trump administration to preserve its "sanctuary" status.
President Trump acted unconstitutionally when he threatened to strip billions of dollars in federal funding from sanctuary cities and counties, like San Francisco and Santa Clara County, that refuse to cooperate fully with immigration officers, a federal judge ruled Monday.
When they're given the metrics, the tools and the chance to contribute, they can work wonders. Denver is showing the way.
With more and more people using them to get where they need to go, reclaimed railways and industrial corridors are connecting neighborhoods rather than dividing them.
A lot of entrepreneurs don't understand that government's support is critical to many of the innovations they rely on.
Governing Institute and Build America Mutual recently produced a bond issuance guide.
Building out digital infrastructure raises a host of complex questions, from avoiding obsolescence to sorting through funding options.
Ohio Supreme Court Justice William O'Neill, who is also running for governor, referring to his two daughters and two sisters who were upset that he boasted on Facebook about having sex with 50 "very attractive women" and decried media "hysteria" over the sexual harassment and assault claims against U.S. Sen. Al Franken and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore.
"Most local governments are run by white men, so there hasn’t needed to be a conversation about what diversity looks like."
Proposed cost of podcasts -- which are free to the public -- for prisoners in Indiana. The tablets they would use to download them, though, would be supplied free of charge to the state.
Employment totals and numbers of officers for city police departments.
Every day, Mike Thompson hears a new story about how last month's fires in Northern California have affected people's lives. Insurance is being denied. Tourism is down. Some companies have laid off workers.
Detention centers to house prisoners for deportation have become a new battleground for states and cities seeking to resist the Trump administration’s push to deport more immigrants.
Admitting he was wrong, William M. O'Neill wrote Sunday morning of going to church to "get right with God."
Stephen Bittel's rocky tenure as Florida Democratic Party chairman ended in disgrace Friday after he said he would resign following accusations from women that he leered at them, made suggestive comments and created an unprofessional work environment.
The lights remain off in bustling cities and in small rural villages. Gas generators, the only alternative to the downed power lines that seem to be everywhere, continuously hum outside hospitals and bodegas. When night falls, it's the glow of car lights, not streetlights, that helps break through the darkness.
When state Rep. Wes Goodman resigned this week after being confronted about a sexual interaction in his office involving a man, multiple Statehouse observers said some version of the same thing: This isn't everything.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office was cast into the national maelstrom surrounding sexual harassment allegations after an Erie County woman accused the governor's office in a lawsuit of ignoring her complaints about Sam Hoyt, a former administration official.
LaToya Cantrell soared past Desiree Charbonnet on Saturday to become the first female mayor of New Orleans, winning in a landslide after a hard-fought race that pitted the city's political establishment against grass-roots organizing and turned long-standing political traditions on their head.
Tax credits that New Jersey is offering the candy company Mars Wrigley Confectionery to locate its new headquarters in Newark.
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, who in 2015 was the first AG to sue a pharmaceutical drug company for their role in the opioid epidemic. Since then, more than 100 states, cities and counties have filed similar lawsuits. If they win, Hood predicts the industry would owe trillions of dollars in damages.
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