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Some local leaders are nervous about public-private partnerships.
Amid uncertainty over the law's future, premiums will rise an average of 34 percent next year. In a few states, though, they'll actually go down.
The state’s Republican party recently ousted its leader for working with Democrats. Is that hardline strategy effective?
Should Montana have to prove corruption to limit campaign contributions?
U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond, referring to former Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams, who asked to be temporarily released from custody to see his dying mother before starting his five-year prison sentence for corruption. Diamond refused.
Frequency that scientists predict catastrophic flooding that used to occur once every 500 years will hit New York City by 2030 to 2045.
President Donald Trump's administration said Wednesday it opposes the Delta tunnels project, another setback for California Gov. Jerry's Brown's plan to transform the troubled estuary and improve water deliveries to the south state.
Texas House Speaker Joe Straus will not seek re-election, the San Antonio Republican confirmed Wednesday.
Once seen as a laggard in public administration, the state is now a leader.
One of the most expensive infrastructure projects in American history is also one of the most vital. But no one knows how to pay for it.
Voters will weigh in on marijuana, pre-K and taxes next month.
If the ethics fines, the personal scandals, the bribery trial, and his abrupt resignation in disgrace this summer were not enough, the public dressing down that Seth Williams received from the federal judge who sentenced him Tuesday to five years in prison surely cemented 2017 as the worst year of the former Philadelphia district attorney's life.
If it weren't for the tangled clump of power lines on a nearby corner and the partially unhinged stop sign down the street, Tuesday might have seemed like the first day of a normal school year at Julio Sellés Solá School in San Juan's Río Piedras neighborhood.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday steered Senate Republicans toward tax reform and away from health care, pushing off any deal to fund controversial Obamacare subsidies to the end of the year at best.
In the first major legal battle over abortion under President Donald Trump, the federal appeals court in Washington on Tuesday set aside an anti-abortion rule adopted by the administration and cleared the way for a 17-year-old immigrant to end her pregnancy.
Cranston Republican Mayor Allan Fung launched his second run for governor of Rhode Island on Tuesday, armed for battle against Democrat incumbent Gina Raimondo.
Why businesses and employees from around the country have flocked to the desert in Nevada.
If the trend continues, it carries numerous potential implications.
Tulsa, Okla., a conservative oil town, serves as an example of how places can overcome politics to prevent damage and save lives.
Gov. Larry Hogan signed an executive order Monday that requires all firms with state contracts to promise they will not boycott Israel.
The MTA has taken a major step in retiring the MetroCard, beginning a six-year process to replace it with a tap-based system that will allow commuters to use a variety of payment methods, including smartphones, digital wallets or proprietary cards to pay for their rides.
With future federal funding uncertain, states may freeze enrollment in a program that helps at-risk parents care for their newborns.
In response to a letter about sexual harassment that has been reverberating through the Capitol, California Senate Leader Kevin de León -- also a candidate for U.S. Senate -- announced Monday that his house will hire an independent firm to investigate allegations of sexual harassment, rather than handling such complaints internally.
Republican governors of Indiana, Wisconsin and Missouri, in a new ad that thanks Mike Madigan, the Democratic speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, for raising taxes and blocking his GOP governor's agenda. The result, the governors in the video claim, is more jobs being created in Illinois' neighboring states.
Proposals submitted to Amazon from cities, counties and states that want the online retailer to build its second U.S. headquarters in their region. Some offered the company billions of dollars worth of tax incentives.
A ballot measure would allow judges to strip pensions from corrupt public servants. But ethics watchdogs say the measure is little more than window dressing.
Four mayors reflect on their attempts to better meet the infrastructure needs of low-income residents.
The 5-year-old girl was found dead in the bathtub with shallow water framing her cherubic face and open eyes.
A Kent man who earlier this year withdrew a lawsuit that helped expose a wider alleged child-sex-abuse scandal that drove Ed Murray out of public office has refiled a legal case against Seattle's former mayor.
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