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As cities push to become more environmentally friendly, transportation planners are being asked to consider how both traffic and water flows through their streets.
“Reduce, reuse, recycle” is a life that many try to live, yet struggle to define.
Hiring ex-addicts is a key part of Kentucky's strategy for combating the opioid epidemic and its impact on families.
Mayor Ryan Stovall has no regrets.
Blair Milo is used to being underestimated because of her age and gender. She doesn't let it stop her from running a city.
Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage, complaining about the media for reporting that he was planning to leave the state when the government was shut down last week. LePage left lawmakers voicemails that said he was "heading out of town" -- but the governor later said he was lying in order to get lawmakers to call him back sooner.
The new minimum wage in St. Louis, as of Aug. 28, which will be down from $10. The city increased it to $10 in 2015, but a new state law makes it illegal for municipalities in Missouri to set their own minimum wage.
Erwin, Tenn., was struggling. Then its mayor did something many public officials usually don't: She listened to young people.
After long fighting Texas' voter ID law for discriminating against Latino and African American voters, the U.S. Department of Justice declared the latest revision of the controversial state law now satisfies President Donald Trump's administration, according a filing in federal court Wednesday.
Aiming to make them more difficult to get, many states are considering strengthening their laws. There's evidence about what makes for a good one.
A federal judge in Honolulu today denied an emergency motion by the state of Hawaii to clarify what constitutes a close family relationship in the rules of President Donald Trump's partial travel ban.
The minimum wage in St. Louis will revert to $7.70 an hour on Aug. 28, with Gov. Eric Greitens announcing on Friday that he will allow a bill blocking the city's increase to become law without his signature.
Oklahoma City police are investigating an Uber driver's complaint that a state senator "made advances on her during transit," The Oklahoman has confirmed.
The Ohio House on Thursday handed Gov. John Kasich the first veto overrides of his administration, but it did not attempt to undo his veto of a budget provision to freeze enrollment in the Medicaid expansion he's fought to defend.
Eighteen states on Thursday sued Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, alleging she unlawfully delayed new federal regulations designed to protect student loan borrowers from being ripped off by for-profit colleges and other schools.
The attorneys general of New Mexico and California jointly filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the U.S. Department of the Interior, saying the agency, under the Trump administration, has illegally postponed requirements for companies to comply with methane regulations enacted under the Obama administration.
States that have passed legislation to require paid family leave. Washington state this week joined California, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island.
An Instagram post from Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, alongside a photo of a brown bag. The former presidential candidate often posts photos of his brown bag lunches, which usually consist of two ham and cheese sandwiches and cranberry juice.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
New research shows immigrants ultimately make state and local governments more money on average than native-born Americans.
Washington state is now among a handful of states that guarantee paid family leave, after Gov. Jay Inslee’s signing Wednesday of a bipartisan plan approved by the Legislature.
An 18-year-old U.S. citizen spent an extra night in a Miami-Dade jail based on a flawed and illegal request from immigration authorities, according to a lawsuit seeking to overturn the county's new policy to hold inmates sought for deportation.
Until he stepped aside from his real estate business to become a senior White House aide, developer Jared Kushner was a major player in the gentrification of Jersey City, where former railroad yards and waste sites are being transformed into luxury housing.
Comparing the state income tax hike he'd vetoed a day earlier to a "two-by-four smacked across the forehead," Gov. Bruce Rauner on Wednesday warned lawmakers not to override him and said he would do "everything possible" to try to make sure they don't.
Judges have broad authority in refusing to lighten the sentences of "three-strikes" inmates, despite recent ballot measures aimed at reducing the California's prison population, the state's highest court ruled Monday.
Kris Kobach defended his attempt to obtain a nationwide collection of voter information in both a court filing and a White House statement as criticism continued to grow over his request.
To minimize the impact on services from future spending cuts and economic downturns, governments need to take a proactive, multi-year approach.
Its ports and freight system account for a significant portion of its air pollution. Will aggressive new state and regional efforts once again serve as a model for the nation?
New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo
States that have refused to provide some or all of the voter information requested by the Trump administration's Commission on Election Integrity.
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