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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on his new podcast called "Chicago Stories," talking about the overwhelming variety of craft beer in the city with his first guests: local brewers.
The new mayor of Jackson, Miss., may offer striking evidence of a nationwide trend.
Estimated bed bugs in a cup that a citizen slammed on the counter in a municipal office in Augusta, Maine, after being told he didn't qualify for assistance. His reaction released the bugs and closed the city offices for extermination.
Joining the ranks of comedians, radio hosts and millennials with microphones, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has started a podcast.
Convening a second year in Augusta, the state Republican party on Saturday elected John Watson, a lobbyist who helped turn Georgia red, as new chairman of the state party.
A man angered that he didn't qualify for assistance took his revenge, slamming a cup on the counter of a municipal office and releasing an estimated 100 bedbugs, reports say.
Gov. Chris Christie has signed Executive Order No. 225, which directs New Jersey's chief technology officer to oversee the centralization of IT for more than 70 executive branch agencies.
The fatal stabbing of two good Samaritans who intervened when a man on a commuter train shouted slurs at two women — both African-American, one in Muslim dress — has reawakened bitter memories of this state’s past and revived a debate over what people here call the “two Oregons,” where islands of tolerance abut places awash in frustration and rage.
Democrat Stacey Abrams entered the campaign for Georgia governor on Saturday with a pledge to expand pre-kindergarten programs and make technical college education free, promising she’d bring a “bold and ambitious approach” to state government that will invigorate the economy.
Politicians sometimes demand it, but it has nothing to do with ability. It doesn't serve them or the governments they run.
Gov. Greg Abbott signed a new voter ID bill into law Thursday, loosening identification requirements from a 2011 law that a federal judge said was enacted by Republicans to intentionally discriminate against minority voters, who tend to vote for Democrats.
Autonomous-vehicle technology is about to bring big changes to the way our freight moves. It can't come soon enough.
Florida will become the first state to issue what’s essentially a birth certificate to women who’ve had miscarriages, an idea that received broad support among Democrats and Republicans despite concerns from the National Organization for Women that it was an attempt to define life for fetuses that couldn’t survive outside the womb.
If you’re thinking about developing an autonomous vehicle in Colorado, go ahead. It’s now legal, as long as you obey all of the existing rules of the road, according to legislation that Gov. John Hickenlooper signed into law Thursday.
The Vision Zero traffic-safety campaign depends on using data to identify dangerous conditions. Now that data is getting even better.
Austin Mayor Steve Adler's sarcastic response, which he published on his blog, to an email he received from someone upset that a movie theater planned to host two women-only screenings of the movie “Wonder Woman."
Confirmed cases of measles in Minnesota, which exceeds the number of cases in the United States last year. Most of the victims are unvaccinated preschool children.
Tobacco and soda companies disproportionately target minority citizens and lawmakers with advertising and lobbying. One city is fed up.
The cities of San Antonio and Austin announced on Thursday they have joined the fight to stop the state's new immigration enforcement law, Senate Bill 4, in federal court.
After remaining quiet on the issue during the recent legislative session, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law Thursday that will eliminate the straight-ticket voting option starting in 2020.
Gov. Paul LePage is suggesting that prison inmates granted "conditional commutations" could help fill vacancies in Maine's tourism industry as businesses struggle to find workers with summer looming.
Mayor John Labrosse, a former Republican, rejoined the Democratic Party on Thursday.
Following President Donald Trump's decision Thursday to pull the United States out of the historic Paris climate accord, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo encouraged him to reconsider what she called a "short-sighted" move.
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said he took personal offense to President Donald Trump's reference to the Steel City in announcing the United States' departure from the Paris climate agreement.
Delaware is trying something completely new in the fight against opioid and heroin addiction, but it could be a long time before it sees any results.
Moving quickly to fill a climate leadership vacuum opened by President Trump, the governors of California, New York and Washington on Thursday announced a new alliance of states dedicated to fighting global warming and urged others to join them.
A group of grad students has won national recognition for their solution to a problem that plagues lower-income people across America.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Nan Whaley, the mayor of Dayton and a candidate for Ohio governor, urging the state to take action to address the opioid epidemic. Her words come amid news that the state's attorney general filed a lawsuit against five drug manufacturers, seeking financial damages for their role in the crisis.
Terminally ill people in California who have sought a prescription for life-ending drugs since June 2016, which is when the state's physician-assisted death law took effect. The practice is legal in five other states plus the District of Columbia.
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