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As voters head to the polls in Connecticut, Delaware and Washington, Democrats are hoping to ride some voters' discontent with President Trump to victory.
A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered Pennsylvania prisons to abandon a policy that automatically kept former death-row inmates in solitary confinement, in some cases for years after their capital sentences had been vacated.
In early January, a capacity crowd filled the Mission Mill for a Salem City Club presentation on health care. It was politics at its most grass-roots, full of wonky detail about capitation rates and coordinated care organizations.
Gov. Chris Christie signed into law on Friday a measure that for the first time establishes statewide regulations for ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft.
A few days after moving into the White House, President Donald Trump put the third-largest city in the country on notice.
The Trump administration has found a nationwide injunction it can live with.
Tens of thousands of residents in Northern California were ordered to immediately evacuate Sunday afternoon after erosion at the emergency spillway at Lake Oroville threatened to flood downstream towns.
Ask anyone about their health care and you are likely to hear about ailments, doctors, maybe costs and insurance hassles.
Several states have already passed right-to-work laws this year -- and their reach may finally expand into the Northeast.
It’s time for a history lesson.
U.S. politics isn't all poisonous. You just have to leave Washington to realize that.
Hip restaurants have helped revive cities. But is the boom fizzling out?
The state’s lawmakers have a history of ethics and legal problems -- yet their constituents don’t seem to care.
Two new governors have surprised their states by keeping many of the previous administrations' cabinet members.
But the days of having lawyers regulate their own conduct are numbered in California. The question now is whether that will prompt others to end the controversial practice.
After fighting his own battle over where to house his Star Wars stuff, he let the cities duke it out.
There's a striking pattern among the states, and it suggests that we need to take a new look the systems that govern public workers.
Even though Denver and Austin came up just short in the federal technology competition, both are moving forward with their ideas.
Some policy experts think Minnesota has one, but it could be a tough sell for lawmakers in other states.
Sales are lagging in the proving ground of California. But maybe it's too early to be keeping score.
Several states are preparing to offer a retirement plan that helps private-sector workers -- and taxpayers -- save money.
Gov. Kate Brown on Thursday issued an executive order that forbids all state agencies and employees from helping federal immigration officials locate or apprehend undocumented immigrants.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey's office said Thursday she isn't taking the pay raise that comes as part of a package state lawmakers approved earlier in the day.
State lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Thursday to override Gov. Larry Hogan's veto of a bill to increase the use of renewable energy in the state.
Younger Americans don't much like what's happening in our elections. But they're not turning out to cast their ballots.
A guard at a Delaware prison was killed sometime during a nearly 24-hour standoff that began Wednesday between prisoners and police, authorities said today.
To compete with the private sector for talent, public-sector organizations need to transform the ways they manage and develop their workforces.
Gov. Dennis Daugaard on Thursday signed House Bill 1069, effectively repealing a voter-approved campaign finance and ethics law set into statute as Initiated Measure 22.
Republicans in the Hawaii House of Representatives on Wednesday ousted minority leader Rep. Beth Fukumoto over her criticism of President Donald Trump, including calling him a bully at last month's Women's March in Honolulu.
Booming exurban logistics centers have trouble filling jobs. One city has come up with a promising transportation solution.
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