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The concept caught fire in Europe and is gaining relevance in large and small cities across the Atlantic.
It's too hard for low-income households to take advantage of programs to lower their utility bills. Some cities are making progress.
Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt is taking the lead for a 10-state coalition of attorneys general in filing a court brief defending state governments’ ability to regulate groundwater usage.
Law enforcement officials and nonprofits across Minnesota are taking aggressive new action to crack down on customers of prostitution -- often white, middle-aged and married men -- and boosting programs aimed at keeping teens out of the sex trade.
Governments are starting to realize that cybersecurity isn't just the responsibility of the IT department.
Leanne Robbin, a Maine assistant attorney general who successfully argued in federal court for a state law that bans protesters who are so loud they can be heard inside a building where people are receiving health services. The case centered around anti-abortion protesters outside a Planned Parenthood clinic.
State legislators who are term-limited in 2018. Republicans make up 177 of them, while Democrats make up 86.
To find it, a new book says, localities need look no further than their roads, airports and convention centers.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is backing Wisconsin in a high-profile case asking the U.S. Supreme Court whether lawmakers can go too far when drawing political maps to advantage one party.
A Delaware Superior Court judge has ruled that the state's highest executive has broad authority to shield his emails from public view.
A federal appeals court has ruled that Maine can enforce a law that bars protests that are intentionally loud enough to be heard inside a building.
Incumbent Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and challenger state Sen. Coleman Young II will head for a showdown in November after both candidates garnered an overwhelming majority of votes in the Tuesday primary, knocking six other mayoral hopefuls out of the race.
When Dolores Loaeza was a baby and she needed medical care, her mother could call her pediatrician in Mexico for free advice, and, if needed, to send medication across the border to Los Angeles.
U.S. health insurer Anthem Inc (ANTM.N) said on Monday it will no longer offer Obamacare plans in Nevada's state exchange and will stop offering the plans in nearly half of Georgia's counties next year.
The U.S. Justice Department -- which last year backed civil rights groups in a court case over Ohio's decision to remove thousands of inactive voters from Ohio voter rolls -- is now taking a different tack under the administration of President Donald Trump.
The residents of House District 82 chose Phil Miller to be its new state representative during a special election Tuesday.
Local air quality officials are gaining new powers to quickly stop polluters when they endanger people's health under legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday.
Louisiana public schools are starting the 2017-18 academic year anew, and students will not be the only ones facing a new challenge.
Joshua Miller, a resident at one of the nation's first domestic violence shelters devoted to men. When he was attacked by his girlfriend, the police initially arrested him instead of her.
Rise in the updated 2014 opioid fatality rate since it was previously reported. Researchers initially undercounted because many death certificates don't include causes of death.
Federal health officials wrongly approved a 10 percent reduction in California's already-low Medi-Cal rates for hospital outpatient services without considering the impact on access to care for more than 13 million low-income residents, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
Danielle Outlaw, a 19-year veteran of the Oakland Police Department who started as a police explorer when she was in high school, will serve as Portland's next chief, only the third outsider named to lead the Police Bureau.
Jack Bergeson is trying to be the next governor of Kansas, even though he won't be able to legally cast a vote when the chance comes.
Mayor Megan Barry, returning to her regular duties as Nashville's mayor Monday, opened up publicly about the death of her son, Max, from an apparent drug overdose and pivoted to a new role — a voice in the national opioid crisis.
The Secretary of State will proceed with the release of information from voter checklists to a presidential commission on election fraud, now that a lawsuit filed by two New Hampshire lawmakers and the ACLU to stop the release has been resolved.
Sandy Willhite doesn’t mind driving 45 minutes to the nearest shopping center. But living in Hillsboro, W.Va., became problematic when she had to travel nearly six hours for proper foot treatment.
Deona Scott was 24 and in her final semester at Charleston Southern University in South Carolina when she found out she was pregnant. She turned to Medicaid for maternity health coverage and learned about a free program for first-time mothers that could connect her with a nurse to answer questions about pregnancy and caring for her baby.
Maine has joined dozens of states in refusing to share personal voter information with President Trump's voter fraud commission. But the state regularly sells the very same data to political parties, candidates and ballot question or issue-based political action committees.
The state's lawmakers are working on ways to address its affordable housing crisis, but advocates and academics say they're not going about it in the best way.
Increase in immigration-related state laws enacted in the first six months of 2017 compared to the same period last year. Every state but Alaska, Massachusetts and North Carolina enacted one.
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