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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.
The Trump administration will extend by one year a deadline for states to comply with a major Obama-era regulation on emissions of a smog-causing pollutant that spews from tailpipes and smokestacks.
California Governor Jerry Brown met Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday as part of a trip to push the US state's commitment to climate action.
Phil Murphy, the wealthy former ambassador who plowed $16 million on his own money into his campaign, brushed aside his five Democratic rivals and Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno prevailed after a tougher-than-expected challenge from a three-term assemblyman Tuesday night as they claimed their party's nominations for New Jersey governor.
Commute to work for a growing share of Americans. From 2010 to 2015, more people became so-called super commuters in 40 states.
Metro areas around the country have been adding jobs. But some regional economies have seen especially sharp gains in recent months.
Advertisement that ran in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Tuesday and is signed by many of the city's elected officials, including the mayor, a Congressman and state legislators. In the president's speech to announce that he's withdrawing the United States from the global agreement to address climate change, he said it's because he was "elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris."
The number of commuters who travel 90 minutes or more to get to work increased sharply between 2010 and 2015.
Arresting or denying someone services based on their immigration status will be against the law in Columbus.
Nevada Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval has signed legislation that will require new school buses to be equipped with seat belts.
Oakland police officers tend to speak less respectfully to black people than to white people during traffic stops, using language in these everyday interactions that can erode community faith in the police.
Any insurers that leave New York's health insurance exchange will be banned from participating in the state's Medicaid program or contracting with any state agencies under regulations Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday.
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request from North Carolina lawmakers to review a lower court's ruling that struck down the 2011 state legislative districts, but sent the case back for reconsideration of whether elections should be held in 2017 as the lower court ordered.
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