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City Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell and former judge Desiree Charbonnet earned spots in a runoff for New Orleans mayor, guaranteeing the city will elect its first woman mayor in the Nov. 18 runoff.
One week after a storm of wildfires ignited in California’s Wine Country, firefighters on Sunday were finally eyeing an end to the deadly siege as winds settled down and the unrelenting infernos weakened enough for some people in endangered areas to return home.
A state that was struggling with slow construction, soaring prices and rents now must find accommodation for thousands of evacuees from scorched zones.
Voters in three states approved similar ballot measures last year, but critics say it's unnecessary and could gum up the criminal justice system.
Connecticut House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz, referring to the two lawmakers in the state -- one a Democrat and one a Republican -- who are getting married.
If passed, the state would become the 33rd to expand Medicaid and signal support for Obamacare at a time when President Trump is taking major steps to reverse it.
California will extend workplace protections to 2.7 million more people who now will be able to take 12 weeks of parental leave without fear of losing their job.
The U.S. Justice Department is taking fresh aim at a New Orleans Police Department policy limiting inquiries into residents' immigration status, the latest salvo in a running war on so-called "sanctuary cities" by President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Robert Pruett was executed in Huntsville Thursday night, completing the death sentence he received more than 15 years ago in the 1999 murder of prison guard Daniel Nagle.
While Congress has failed to restore funding to the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the Trump administration has made $230 million in excess funds from previous years available to five states and four U.S. territories that were in danger of running out of money the soonest.
A state senator from University City caught criticism on Thursday for the second time since August after she posted another controversial social media message regarding President Donald Trump.
When Jeremy Boutor moved to a master-planned community in Houston’s booming energy corridor, he saw it as idyllic.
The Trump administration Thursday advanced a wide-ranging executive order aimed at expanding lower-cost insurance options, allowing employers to give workers money to buy their own coverage and slowing consolidation in the insurance and hospital industries.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro on Wednesday became the latest to sue the Trump administration over its move to roll back the Affordable Care Act's birth control coverage mandate.
The federal government will cease crucial federal payments to health insurers that provide coverage to low-income Americans, the White House announced late Thursday in a move that threatens to send health insurance premiums skyrocketing for millions of Americans and destabilize markets across the country.
The courts and Congress have done a lot of damage to their power to act collectively. State and local policymakers could give them a fairer shake.
The story of the iconic race offers a good lesson in how to make room for grand civic ideas.
They need to be nimbler than ever, looking for better ways to leverage local talent and institutions to ensure that their residents are the real winners.
Saving money isn't the point. The conversation should be about government effectiveness and positive outcomes.
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, one of the many Democrats being floated as a possible candidate for president in 2020.
Average monthly tax revenue that North Dakota has received from the Dakota Access Pipeline.
New data shows migration patterns between counties. View updated figures for your jurisdiction.
With no end to the epidemic in sight, the feds are helping some states treat more addicts.
More and more, innovative companies that make things want to be in the city. Their needs are different from those of yesterday's manufacturers.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Gov. Charlie Baker has unveiled what he's calling a "first-in-the-nation set of educational core principles" for social workers on the front lines of the battle against opioid abuse, which has claimed thousands of lives in Massachusetts.
President Donald Trump is trying to do with the stroke of a pen what Republicans in Congress could not — bring about the end of the Obamacare markets.
A series of deadly California wildfires have burned through some 170,000 acres statewide, but heavy smoke from the disaster zones drifted farther still as pesky particles of dust, ash and soot entered the lungs of residents nearly 100 miles away.
Larry Marsh has a history of mental illness and drug addiction. Homeless, he has no place to go. The police in this city have arrested or cited him more than 270 times for trespassing. In December, they got him four times in one day.
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