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With three days left for him to sign or veto bills passed during the regular session, Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law legislation that would give faith-based adoption agencies legal protection to reject gay parents, let voters decide the fate of Dallas County Schools and create a law named after a woman who died in custody after a controversial arrest.
Oregon became the first U.S. state to allow residents to identify as "nonbinary," neither male nor female, on their driver licenses and identification cards Thursday in a decision by The Oregon Transportation Commission.
A bipartisan group of state attorneys general announced on Thursday that they are jointly investigating the marketing and sales practices of drug companies that manufacture opioid painkillers at the center of a national addiction epidemic.
Delaware Gov. John Carney, a Democrat, has signed a new law prohibiting prospective employers from asking job applicants about their salary history.
Governor Rick Scott signed a controversial, 278-page education bill Thursday that most school districts and superintendents fought against but pro-charter advocates pushed.
A federal court struck down regulations intended to cap the price of some calls to prison inmates, which can cost families thousands of dollars a year.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
While Congress is gridlocked on health care, the state's GOP governor and Democratic legislature have been busy finding common ground -- til now.
Two years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would build the country's first state-run gold depository, the project took a major step forward Wednesday.
Old models for managing urban transportation are insufficient. New options demand that we think in terms of mobility.
A proposed "millionaire tax" constitutional amendment is heading to the 2018 ballot after Massachusetts lawmakers voted 134-55 Wednesday to place the measure before voters.
California, 10 other states and New York City sued the Trump administration in San Francisco on Tuesday for halting action on new federal energy-efficiency standards for portable air conditioners, building heaters and other appliances, saying the delays are illegal and are harming consumers and the environment.
Virginia Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who has been accused by some of having the demeanor of "a sort of Bizarro Trump."
Canine attacks on postal workers in the U.S. in 2016, up from 5,581 in 2013. Among major cities, Los Angeles had the largest number of attacks: 80.
A panel of judges has upheld Philadelphia's beverage tax, dismissing complaints from the American Beverage Association and local retailers that the levy is unlawful.
More than a month after the Trump administration purged data tracking climate change from the Environmental Protection Agency's website, the numbers are going back online in some unexpected places.
Rep. Paul Thissen, the Minneapolis DFLer who was speaker of the Minnesota House during a brief but intense period of progressive legislative victories a few years ago, said Wednesday that he is running for governor.
A project dubbed by one senior Oregon manager as "the most important information technology effort in the state" has been plagued by escalating costs, a bureaucratic turf battle and technical misfires.
Days after Mayor Rahm Emanuel backed away from a pledge to have a judge monitor efforts to reform the Chicago Police Department, a host of civil rights organizations filed a federal lawsuit seeking to spur sweeping changes in the troubled department that would be enforced by the courts.
Medical marijuana cards will now cost as low as $50 for Nevada patients, edible products will come in opaque, child-proof packages and a 10 percent excise tax on sales of recreational weed estimated to generate $70 million will be designated for Nevada's rainy day fund after three of four remaining marijuana bills passed by the Nevada Legislature were signed into law Monday by Gov. Brian Sandoval.
The Legislature sued Gov. Mark Dayton on Tuesday, as a fight between two branches of Minnesota government spilled into the third branch.
In a dramatic turnaround, a federal judge has ruled that permits to complete the Dakota Access Pipeline must be reconsidered, and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has demanded the flow of oil through the pipeline be stopped.
They can effectively smooth economic bumps. But it's important to have clear rules for how and when to use the money.
Governments and nonprofits are collaborating on successful approaches to mitigating home foreclosures. Those efforts need to be sustained.
When a gunman allegedly shot five people at a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Va., his actions also impacted his hometown in Illinois.
The number of children in Maine that lack health insurance. That's 6 percent of all children in the state, a 50 percent increase from 2010, when only 4 percent of kids were uninsured. Even as the rates of uninsured children across the nation have dropped, those in Maine continue to climb.
Nick Lyon, the Michigan health and human services director, who was charged Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter for his role in the Flint water crisis. According to charging documents, Lyon knew about an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease due to contaminated water in 2015, but said nothing to the public until a year later. Twelve people died in the outbreak. He also allegedly said "[we] can't save everyone."
Wednesday's shooting during a congressional baseball practice is the latest example of the increased violence -- both threatened and real -- that is seeping into America's political process.
The number of Maine children without health insurance is climbing after years of declines, even though fewer live in poverty, a new report found.
Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders announced a budget deal Tuesday that strips University of California President Janet Napolitano's office of some of its financial autonomy, limits the authority of the embattled Board of Equalization, increases tax credits for the poor and saves the Middle Class Scholarship program at public universities.
