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Alex Roth has gotten into the habit of pulling out his cell phone and showing skeptical friends a screen shot of the classes he'll have to take to get his bachelor of science degree from Northern Michigan University.
The latest evolution of bike-share programs is taking its first Colorado foothold in Aurora.
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday will make official what had long been expected, formally announcing his plans to seek a second term as the state's chief executive despite turmoil within his own political party.
Medicaid money can now be used in New Hampshire to pay for sex change surgery deemed medically necessary, after a legislative committee voted 6-4 on Tuesday to approve new rules for the health care program that serves low-income households.
A divided federal appeals court delayed final resolution of the case of a 17-year-old pregnant migrant in federal detention who is seeking an abortion, giving the Trump administration until the end of this month to find a private sponsor who can house her and will allow her to obtain the procedure.
Returning to the campaign trail nine months after he left the presidency, Barack Obama laced into Donald Trump's presidency as dismantling the gains of his two terms in office and taking America backward.
Rental vouchers are only helpful if landlords are willing to take them. All too often, they're not. But what if the government made it less risky?
The public approved changes to how future gas tax money can be spent. But it’s largely a symbolic measure unless lawmakers approve a hike in the state’s gas tax.
Officials want to create more opportunities for women- and minority-owned businesses.
The area that the rash of wildfires afflicting California are now responsible for burning statewide since Sunday, Oct. 8. For the sake of comparison, that area is larger than the 304.8 square miles that comprises all five boroughs of New York City.
New Jersey Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno on whether she’d appoint Gov. Chris Christie to the U.S. Senate. Guadagno is running for governor, and made the remark during the last debate before the election in November.
St. Louis Public Library found out the hard way about the far-reaching impact of technology threats. In 2017, the library’s technology infrastructure was attacked with ransomware, wreaking havoc on all 700 of the library’s computers. The hackers rendered them useless and prevented all book borrowing.
An amnesty at the city’s three library systems will wipe out fines for all children, allowing 160,000 youngsters whose borrowing privileges had been suspended to check out books again.
Even as D.C.’s economy has boomed and grocery stores in gentrifying neighborhoods have proliferated, the dearth of grocery stores in its poorest wards has remained consistent.
In one of the fastest-paced civic construction jobs in recent U.S. history, hundreds of carpenters, operating engineers and iron workers are rushing to complete repairs to the damaged Oroville Dam spillway. The crews are trying to beat a Nov. 1 deadline and the Northern California rainy season, which once again will begin to fill the massive reservoir behind the nation's highest dam.
California tied Rhode Island and Vermont for the most money lost to online identity theft per capita, 44 times the amount per person of those living in South Dakota, and finished third in average loss amount due to fraud.
Thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court decision, New Jersey residents will soon be free to buy the devices for the first time since 1985. New Jersey was one of only five states that enforced an outright ban on stun guns, which are often marketed by their manufacturers as a non-lethal self-defense tool.
Gov. Gary Herbert says it is unethical for the attorney general to represent both him and the legislature when the two are in conflict, as they are currently on whether Herbert overstepped his authority in setting rules for the 3rd Congressional District special election.
A dramatic increase this year in the number of oaks, manzanita and native plants infected by the tree-killing disease known as sudden oak death likely helped spread the massive fires that raged through the North Bay, a UC Berkeley forest ecologist said Thursday.
Alaska has long been overwhelmed by reports of children in danger. Now the state and Alaska tribes are preparing to try something that has never been done before: Turn the responsibility of protecting Alaska Native children over to Native people themselves.
The Maryland Department of Transportation has given conditional approval to Musk’s firm to dig miles of tunnel under state roads to be used for the privately funded project, Hogan spokesman Doug Mayer said.
While congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump have been seeking major cuts in federal funding of Medicaid, 26 states this year expanded or enhanced benefits and at least 17 plan to do so next year, according to a report released Thursday.
A month has passed since Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, and the island continues to operate in emergency mode, struggling to do even the basics: save lives, protect property, provide drinking water, turn on the lights. Time ticks away in a hazy state of permanent disaster, a catastrophe born from the worst storm to cross Puerto Rico in 85 years — and of a slow recovery by the federal, state and local governments.
In too many cases, regional economic development organizations are missing an opportunity to help make growth more inclusive.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
California Gov. Jerry Brown wrote in 2011 after vetoing a law that would have punished children for skiing without a helmet. Brown often writes explanations for why he vetoes a bill, which is usually because he doesn’t like bills that can be seen as posturing, that could have unforeseen complications or that replicate existing laws. “This is a governor who relishes his role as the adult in the room,” says Thad Kousser, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego.
The number of times Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said "invest" or a variation of the word during a budget speech. He even used it three times in one sentence: “Because Chicago has been willing to invest in our young people, invest in our future, and address our long-term fiscal challenges, businesses have shown the confidence to hire in Chicago, move to Chicago, invest in Chicago and start up in Chicago.”
The changes simplify the educational requirements and relieve professionals from unnecessary documentation, officials said. The new rules also are mostly compatible with other states' rules so out-of-state clinicians can work in Vermont.
Cut, color and … condoms? More than a dozen St. Louis barber shops and beauty salons have expanded their services to include education on sexually transmitted diseases.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday revealed his seventh budget, and for the sixth time, he is raising taxes and fees, moves he said are needed to keep stabilizing the city's finances and foster economic growth.
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