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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.
The Republican surgeon and lawmaker Knute Buehler is running for governor in 2018.
Since 2006, the nation’s largest police departments have fired at least 1,881 officers for misconduct that betrayed the public’s trust, from cheating on overtime to unjustified shooting
President Donald J. Trump said he's thrilled "Big Jim" is flipping to the Republican Party.
In another move to pressure cities into cooperating with immigration enforcement, the U.S. Department of Justice threatened Thursday to withhold crime-fighting help from four cities if they refuse to help federal agents target jail inmates suspected of being in the country illegally.
Craig T. Steckler, president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, in a 2014 report about preventing suicide among law enforcement officers.
What's taking the progressive state so long to right its historical wrongs?
Weight of the ivory jewelry and trinkets that New York ceremoniously crushed in Central Park to show the state's dedication to crushing the illegal ivory trade. Each item was made from the tusks of slaughtered elephants.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was in Columbus on Wednesday to announce a new effort to crack down on doctors, pharmacists and others who are profiting by improperly prescribing and selling opioids.
Servco Pacific Inc. officials and Gov. David Ige broke ground Wednesday on the first publicly accessible hydrogen fueling station on Oahu.
Federal officials announced Tuesday that Michigan State University will receive a $14.4-million grant over four years to track children and adults exposed to lead contamination as a result of the Flint water crisis to monitor their health.
A federal appeals court in Manhattan agreed Thursday to postpone any retrial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges until the Supreme Court acts on a planned petition to further review his case.
For three years, a team of highly trained volunteers from the public and private sector has been standing by in Michigan, ready to spring into action and provide technical assistance if the state gets hit by a massive cyberattack.
To ease prison crowding and rein in corrections spending, state legislatures are trying to help ex-offenders re-enter society with the goal of ensuring they don’t return to prison.
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