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Mark Hutton, a Wichita businessman and former state representative, is joining a growing Republican field in the race for governor.
In response to growing concerns about child sexual abuse, Tennessee lawmakers enacted a law encouraging schools to provide prevention education to teachers and students.
Just like that, the 2020 retail campaigning for president began right here in a strip-mall campaign headquarters Monday, when Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti showed up for what he called “the most important race in the country.”
Gov. Bruce Rauner Monday signed into law one bill that would protect immigrants who are in the country illegally from being detained solely because of their immigration status and another that would automatically register many Illinoisans to vote.
As Texas grapples with unprecedented flooding due to Tropical Storm Harvey, "catastrophe teams" from insurance companies are moving in to assess damage to hard-hit areas, the Insurance Council of Texas said.
As cities across the country are tearing down and relocating Confederate monuments, a county in southern Alabama on Sunday unveiled a new one.
Harvey will be the first test of a controversial new Texas insurance law that takes effect Friday.
President Donald Trump said Monday that he expected Congress to act in a swift, bipartisan manner to approve the necessary funding to help Texas recover and rebuild after the Harvey disaster.
Water that Hurricane Harvey is expected to drop on Texas. That amount of rainfall would cover the entire United States with 0.38 inches of water.
Alejandra Gomez, co-executive director of the Arizona-based Living United for Change in Arizona, an immigrant rights group. She's referring to Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff known for racially profiling, who President Trump pardoned on Friday.
A new study suggests governments are missing out on cost savings by not enrolling enough people in their programs.
To this day, Galveston, Texas, gets millions less in federal funding because of a 2008 storm. It's a cautionary tale of how long it takes to financially recover from disasters.
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday, marking the administration's latest departure from its predecessor's policing policies.
Gov. Bruce Rauner vetoed a bill Friday that would have raised Illinois' minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022, arguing it would hurt businesses and ultimately reduce jobs.
Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday signed into law a bill setting guidelines for companies that operate daily fantasy sports leagues in the Garden State and imposes a 10.5 percent tax on the companies' winnings.
The Defense Department will let California National Guard members keep more than $190 million in disputed enlistment bonuses and other payments _ far more than previously acknowledged _ after the military spent six years trying to recover the money from veterans who had served at the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
The California Supreme Court largely upheld a measure Thursday passed by voters to speed up executions but severely diluted a key provision aimed at ending a backlog of appeals.
In the latest move by states to curtail abortions, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has signed an executive order to stop giving state money to any doctor or group affiliated with providing abortions.
To President Donald Trump and many of his supporters, Joe Arpaio is a national hero whose aggressive pursuit of people in the country illegally and cooperation with federal immigration authorities should be a model for cities and counties around the country.
CareSource has agreed to step in and offer health insurance in Paulding County, Ohio, the last county in the country that faced the prospect of lacking a single Obamacare carrier in 2018.
Bobby Lopez first tried calling 911 at about 3 a.m. Sunday.
People across southeastern Texas scrambled to find shelter Sunday as Tropical Storm Harvey continued to drench the state, dropping up to 24 inches on Houston in 24 hours, flooding bayous and rivers, and unleashing one of the worst natural disasters in Texas history.
A coastal North Carolina city ranks first in the nation in opioid abuse. Now it wants to become an innovation hub for battling the crisis.
Scott Harshbarger, who served as Massachusetts' Democratic attorney general in the 1990s
Frequency with which Democratic state attorneys general have launched lawsuits or legal motions against the Trump administration.
A judge’s last-minute demand for new ridership projections for a light rail line in the Washington suburbs could make investors think twice about working with the government.
City leaders on Tuesday approved a set of oil and gas regulations that exceed what the state requires of energy-extraction firms, setting the stage for potential legal challenges as tensions between Front Range communities and drilling companies mount.
A three-judge federal court panel in San Antonio on Thursday struck down portions of the state's redistricting plan for state House districts and ordered state lawmakers to redraw nine legislative districts due to "intentional discrimination" by race.
Officials with Connecticut and the eight other Northeastern states that are part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) announced Wednesday that they have tentatively agreed to more stringent air pollution restrictions through 2030.
Six weeks after helping Democrats revamp California's landmark climate change policy and facing a torrent of anger from conservative critics, the Republican leader of the state Assembly agreed Thursday to step down and allow a rural Northern California lawmaker to lead the GOP's fractured caucus.
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