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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.
Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday strongly rejected suggestions from Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and other city officials that they could avoid raising local property taxes to pay for damage from Hurricane Harvey if the state would immediately tap its reserve funds.
President Trump told lawmakers Tuesday that he was abandoning a key element of his planned $1 trillion infrastructure package, complaining that certain partnerships between the private sector and federal government simply don’t work.
The federal Department of Homeland Security reversed itself Tuesday and told Wisconsin officials that the Russian government had not tried to hack the state's voter registration system last year.
The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of execution for a black man scheduled to die on Tuesday in Georgia after his lawyers argued that his conviction was tainted by a juror with racist views.
Members of Congress searched for a way forward on health care legislation Tuesday, but as they did, the wreckage of the latest Republican plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act continued to threaten to block the way for bipartisan progress.
Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, overcoming an incumbent with the strong backing of President Donald Trump and a major fundraising advantage.
When high levels of lead were discovered in the public water system in Flint, Mich., in 2015, Medicaid stepped in to help thousands of children get tested for poisoning and receive care.
Business leaders in Tucson have tried to mail Amazon’s chief executive, Jeff Bezos, a 21-foot cactus. The largest conference room in the Tulsa, Okla., mayor’s office has been converted to a war room, with 50 volunteers poring over videos of Mr. Bezos.
Research shows long hours and off-duty work can negatively impact officers’ performance and even worsen their racial biases. But most departments don’t place any limits on officers' hours.
City revival has ceased to be a radical idea, and that’s a good thing.
For one, what’s the objective -- to improve service, save money or both?
At 24, Atlanta’s new sustainability director has already spent a lifetime in the field. He attributes that to cartoons and his famous family.
The medical field has been reluctant to adopt technology. There are reasons to believe that’s changing.
Ed Murray’s resignation represents a trend: Unlike most big cities, mayors there tend to last one term -- or less.
Over a generation, there’s been a sea change in the way cities, states and the feds deal with each other.
They can have a big impact on economic fortunes and social cohesion, which explains the controversy that often surrounds them.
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