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A somber Gov. Bruce Rauner on Thursday signed into law a controversial measure to expand taxpayer-subsidized abortions, drawing unusually sharp criticism from fellow Republicans who accused him of breaking his promise to veto the bill.
Immigration officials on Thursday announced hundreds of arrests in an operation targeting communities where police and elected officials have refused to fully cooperate on enforcing federal immigration laws.
Black Lives Matter is a social movement, like the tea party or the civil rights movement, and therefore can't be sued, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
If the past is any indicator, public schools are about to have a big teachable moment about the First Amendment, sparked by a burst of tension between President Donald Trump and professional athletes.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case originally brought by Gov. Bruce Rauner that challenges whether government employee unions should be able to collect fees from nonmembers, a critical question for organized labor nationwide that the court deadlocked over last year.
Jane Swift, former governor of Massachusetts, believes having public-sector experience is the quickest way to get ahead in the private sector -- especially for women.
A Bureau of Land Management official in Puerto Rico, aiding the recovery effort from Hurricane Maria.
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello on Thursday thanked the Trump administration for helping the island cope with the devastation of Hurricane Maria after the president agreed to waive a federal law restricting foreign ships from transporting cargo to the U.S. territory.
Portion of Arizona state lawmakers who are women, which is the highest female representation of any legislature in the country. Nationally, only a quarter of state legislative seats are held by women.
Particularly when it comes to spending, there's nothing like a natural disaster to demonstrate the interdependence of the public and private sectors.
The technology that underlies bitcoin has a lot of potential. Governments will have to sort out the issues for its regulation and deployment.
Again and again, they get us through crises. So why do we treat them so badly?
Arizona public schools soon will get 200 new teachers as part of a new scholarship program that promises recipients free tuition at one of the state's three public universities for every year they teach in the state.
For the first time in its 20-year history, Charlotte's Citizens Review Board ruled against the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department on Tuesday with a 7-1 vote.
Nibbling on dwindling food stocks, lacking crucial medications, sweltering in half-wrecked homes with only tainted water for washing and barely any for drinking: For many in Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria's aftermath has been even more harrowing than the mighty storm itself.
Hillary Clinton is set to return to the electoral fray next week.
A Kentucky federal judge struck down an anti-abortion law that required women to receive an ultrasound before they can legally have an abortion.
Backing an effort for California to claim a bigger share of the attention from presidential candidates, Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill moving the state's primary elections to early March.
In a special Florida Senate election where President Donald Trump was a drag, a Republican state House member who was once a contestant on "The Apprentice" lost to Democrat Annette Taddeo.
When you drive through the city, you can’t miss its slogan. That wasn’t always the case.
Local income taxes were once blamed for causing businesses to flee to the suburbs. Not anymore.
The public sector has been notoriously slow to embrace technology. Is that finally changing?
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
They're the most vulnerable to disasters, but they don't have to be.
Colorado landfills have been illegally burying low-level radioactive waste from the oil and gas industry that they are not approved to handle, state health officials revealed this week.
In an ominous development, Standard & Poor's has knocked down Hartford's bond rating for the second time in two weeks, declaring that "a default, a distressed exchange, or redemption appears to be a virtual certainty.''
Major metro areas with the highest black-white segregation that are in the Rust Belt.
What a juror told lawyers a few years after a trial that found a Georgia man guilty of murder and led to his death sentence. Lawyers used the juror's words to argue that the conviction was made with racial bias, and the U.S. Supreme Court halted his execution on Tuesday.
Institutionalized racism can result in misdirected resources that do little to solve serious crimes.
As Governing celebrates its 30th anniversary, here's a few predictions for the next three decades.
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