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Gov. Matt Bevin of Kentucky was unrestrained in his praise for President Trump: Opening for him at a rally on Monday, Mr. Bevin, a conservative Republican, echoed Mr. Trump’s “America First” slogan and only gently noted the nagging divisions in their party.
The latest Census estimates show urban counties in the Northern U.S. and Midwest, in particular, are losing residents to the suburbs and Sun Belt.
Many cities and states have made commitments to support and promote farm-to-table food. But few have fraud protections in place to make sure people are eating truly "local."
The state wants to expand an already hated highway in an impoverished Denver neighborhood. The neighbors are fighting back.
The billionaire philanthropist has vowed to secure retirement for public employees. So why do so many public employees despise him?
Using data to measure government performance has caught on in much of the country. But the tactic is in trouble in Maryland.
Cities and counties across the country recently elected reform-minded DAs who are taking a more strategic approach to prosecutors' typical tough-on-crime policies.
A tunnel-boring machine recently dug a two-and-a-half-mile-hole beneath the surface of the nation's capital. It only took 366 days.
Arizona’s Department of Child Safety says it has dropped a 3-month-old policy that let investigators secretly record interviews with parents or caregivers suspected of crimes using a controversial and questionable technology meant to detect lying.
Before nursing home patient Carmencita Misa became bedridden, she was a veritable “dancing queen,” says her daughter, Charlotte Altieri.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Tuesday signed into a law a bill ending the state's 32-year-old dual holiday in January honoring both the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert E. Lee and making the day a holiday celebrating King only.
Congressional Republicans have "declared war on New York," an angry Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Tuesday, referring to a proposed amendment to a federal health care bill that would shift New York's Medicaid costs from its counties to state government.
Describing himself as "merely a thankful beggar," Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams sought hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from deep-pocketed donors seeking his help with their legal woes, federal authorities said Tuesday as they unveiled a 23-count indictment charging the two-term Democrat in a sprawling corruption case.
It's intensifying at every level of government, hurting not only dedicated public employees but also the people and communities they serve.
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The Circular Economy, Part 1/4: GreenBiz's "State of the Green Business 2017" recently addressed the effect expanding cities and changing seasons have on our environment's water supply. And with water outranking food shortages and cyberattacks as global crises, according to the World Economic Forum, it's time to talk about it: What does it mean for a community to effectively "recycle" the flow of clean water? How do new types of circular infrastructure now repurpose water beyond the potable?
D.C. and more than a dozen states are shunning paperless refunds to avoid being conned out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Neil Howe co-wrote a book in the 1990s. Little did he know how influential it would be.
Sex offenders in California who have completed their prison sentences must comply with strict monitoring conditions while on probation, including undergoing lie-detector tests about their conduct and receiving treatment from therapists who can reveal their secrets to a probation officer, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday.
The Illinois Supreme Court will not immediately decide whether state employees can continue to be paid without a state budget in place.
The 71-year-old mayor of a southern Oregon town was arrested Sunday, accused of setting up a meeting to have sex with a 14-year-old girl who turned out to be a police officer.
State Sen. Daniel Biss of Evanston formally entered the Democratic race for governor Monday, decrying a broken political system that favors "billionaires and machine politicians" and declaring, "this is a campaign for the rest of us."
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has hired a former prosecutor under ex-U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to pursue public corruption cases.
President Trump's administration is aiming to shame sanctuary cities with a new report listing localities that are not cooperating with requests to detain illegal immigrants who have been charged with crimes.
Studies show that the people just joining the workforce may present a different set of challenges and opportunities than their predecessors.
That's the mantra of Dr. Leana Wen, the health commissioner of Baltimore and our guest for the latest episode of "The 23%: Conversations With Women in Government."
In an effort to bring Airbnb under some of the same regulations its competitors in the hotel industry face, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has reached an agreement with the popular home-sharing platform to collect county resort taxes.
Murder is ugly, and murderers are not sympathetic characters.
It's not something you see every day: a Republican governor in a Republican-dominated state vetoing a Republican-backed gun bill.
The corrections officers who locked a schizophrenic inmate into a rigged shower -- one that at least five inmates said was cranked up to scalding temperatures -- committed no crime, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernández Rundle announced Friday.
The Hawaii judge who brought a national halt to President Donald Trump's new travel ban last week has rejected the government's request to limit his ruling.
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