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Immigrants use Washington state to sneak into Canada for asylum. Here's how, and why.
The legal judgments underscore the importance of local governments maintaining a healthy reserve fund balance to absorb unforeseen expenses.
For some patients, finding a doctor willing to prescribe life-ending drugs can be difficult
A high school in Portland, Maine, is believed to be the first secondary school in the United States to offer its Muslim student athletes performance hijabs, the Associated Press reports.
California’s attorney general argued Thursday that President Trump has no legal authority to revoke or modify national monuments created by previous administrations.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday announced he was calling the Legislature back for a special session to address must-pass “sunset” legislation and 19 other measures. Here’s what Texans can expect ahead of July 18.
The American Civil Liberties Union and another civil rights group filed suit Thursday seeking to stop implementation of Missouri's new photo ID voting law in advance of a July 11 St. Louis special election, claiming the law is an attempt to disenfranchise voters.
More and more, local governments are coming to understand that they can't count on Washington.
It's essential for organizational success. And despite the public sector's unique challenges, it can be done.
Gov. Henry McMaster of South Carolina, voicing skepticism about spending more money on fighting opioid addiction in the state. On Tuesday, Gov. McMaster signed a bill regulating opioid prescriptions in South Carolina.
The number of fatal police shootings that have taken place in Maine so far this year. That's twice as many people as were killed by Maine police in all of 2015 and 2016 combined.
Ohio and Missouri now have dozens of counties without an insurer. Other states are trying to prevent a similar situation, but their actions can only go so far.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
With a bottom-up approach, Detroit is making surprising progress toward turning around its neighborhoods.
Despite the advancing calendar, North Carolina voters could return to the polls this year to elect new state lawmakers after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ruling that the current districts are illegal.
Pennsylvania's two chief fiscal watchdogs warned legislators on Wednesday that the state might have to borrow as much as $3 billion to run the government in 2017-18 if structural budget problems are not addressed.
Just past the Alabama border, there’s an 18-mile stretch of Interstate 85 where new technologies are being tested for what could be a green highway of the future.
Doctors prescribing powerful pain pills, such as hydrocodone and oxycodone, in South Carolina will now have to check a state database before prescribing the highly-addictive medication.
A bill aimed at preventing the disruption of campus speakers won final legislative approval Tuesday.
Twice as many people have been fatally shot by Maine police so far this year as in all of 2016 and 2015 combined.
Dallas is joining some other Texas cities, including Austin and San Antonio, in taking on the state's so-called "sanctuary city" law.
While it seems far-fetched, the danger is real for small governments.
Residents of a California farm community have come up with a model solution for an all-too-common transportation problem.
The option is catching on among public-sector employers as a way to attract and retain employees.
Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott, who criticizes the city's liberal policies -- which are frequently at odds with the state -- for being government overreach. He called a special session in which lawmakers will consider bills that would limit municipalities' power.
States where the opioid crisis has been declared a public health emergency. They are: Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts and Virginia.
Lawmakers rolled back Gov. Sam Brownback’s signature tax policy over his objections Tuesday night, forcing into law tax increases to fix a budget shortfall and provide more money for schools.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency, an effort to stem the state’s spiraling death toll from overdoses of prescription painkillers and heroin. The Republican governor’s declaration follows similar announcements in at least five other states: Alaska, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts and Virginia.
Hawaii has passed a law to document sea level rise and set strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The bill signed by Gov. David Ige Tuesday aligns the state's goals with the Paris climate accord.
City leaders on Tuesday saw much of Gov. Greg Abbott's call for a special session as part of a continuing attack on Austin that rose from angry rhetoric about the left-leaning city to an all-out "war on cities," as Austin Mayor Steve Adler put it Tuesday.
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