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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.
A church's sign listing their service times in New York City. The city's subway system has been plagued by major delays, derailments and power outages. On Monday, the mayor proposed taxing the wealthy to fund the repairs and upgrades.
A university-developed app is showing promise in helping people stay on the track to recovery.
The Massachusetts Division of Insurance announced today that a court has granted its request to place Minuteman Health into receivership to protect policyholders and health care providers.
The South Dakota Department of Corrections has agreed to foot the training bill for a group of Minnehaha County criminal justice officials seeking training on racial and ethic disparities in the juvenile justice system.
Starting next week, anyone convicted of felony stalking or being a habitual domestic violence offender in Colorado won’t be able to get bail before sentencing under a new law prompted by a Colorado Springs woman’s 2016 slaying.
The attack on a Bloomington Islamic center is "an act of terrorism" and a hate crime, Gov. Mark Dayton declared Sunday during a visit to show solidarity.
Fully half of the 18 members leaving the House next year jumped in order to run for governor in their states, looking to trade in legislative gridlock for executive orders — and the chance to play a dominating role in redrawing their colleagues’ districts in four years.
Two years after Congress scrapped federal formulas for fixing troubled schools, states for the most part are producing only the vaguest of plans to address persistent educational failure.
Sgt. Brad Sevier usually patrols an area of Missouri where there is one farm for every 20 residents. Now the Missouri state trooper commutes an hour to patrol the big city.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Law Department on Monday filed its much-touted lawsuit against President Donald Trump's Justice Department over its effort to withhold some grant funding from so-called sanctuary cities.
Hiring has picked up in the past two months, but it's still far behind last year's growth.
Conrad Lucas, GOP chairman of West Virginia, on the news that Gov. Jim Justice is switching from the Democratic to Republican party. As a Democrat, the GOP criticized him for owing millions in back taxes, among other things.
Colorado is one of the few governments to employ the data-driven approach in human services. It's helping the state tackle major problems.
People convicted of soliciting prostitution in Montana who have been sentenced to take a one-day course that teaches offenders about the harms of sex trafficking. The program started in February, but many attorneys and judges are unaware of it.
All city police officers soon will be equipped with an antidote that can block the effect of opioid overdoses.
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