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ohn F. Long, often called the "Father of the West Valley," sat in the library of an elementary school named after him, in the Maryvale neighborhood he developed to share breakfast with a group of students.
President Donald Trump is personally urging Florida Gov. Rick Scott to challenge Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson in 2018 — and the loyal Trump ally looks increasingly likely to take the leap.
With the state flush with new general government revenues, Gov. Bill Haslam on Monday night unveiled a $37 billion annual spending plan, urging lawmakers to adopt his recommended gas tax increases to pay for better roads and reject temptations to dodge it by turning to burgeoning revenues in other non-transportation areas to fund it instead.
After striking down Wisconsin's legislative maps as unconstitutional two months ago, a federal court Friday ordered Gov. Scott Walker and lawmakers to redraw the districts by Nov. 1 to ensure their use in the fall 2018 elections.
In state capitals around the country, lawmakers are trying to block voter-approved policies. Critics say it's "lawlessness" that represents the new political climate.
The new regulation requires states to help parents in poverty avoid debt and incarceration.
A federal judge Friday blocked Texas from requiring that fetal remains to be buried or cremated.
Governor Andrew Cuomo said his office will provide legal counsel for immigrants detained in New York airports and announced a hotline for families unsure if loved ones are detained.
Could the 2018 race for governor come down to former health care executive versus former health care executive?
With protesters' chants echoing through arrival halls and beyond, confusion prevailed Sunday at airports across the United States amid seemingly contradictory signals from the Trump administration over a hotly contested executive order blocking U.S. entry to refugees and nationals of seven Muslim-majority nations.
Attorneys general from 15 states and the District of Columbia on Sunday condemned President Donald Trump’s executive action banning Muslim immigration from select countries, calling it “unconstitutional, un-American and unlawful.”
States and cities will find it easier to turn away even those refugees the Trump administration admits to the U.S. under the executive order issued Friday.
Some states are seeking to fill funding holes and potholes with toll money. But it's an uphill battle.
Local governments and school districts in many places have incurred substantial reductions in intergovernmental revenues in recent years.
A new knowledge-exchange platform aims to bring collaboration to bear on efforts to improve the use of data.
View average commute times for driving, buses, subways and other modes of transportation.
The mayor of Miami-Dade county on Thursday ordered county jails to comply with federal detention requests, citing President Donald Trump's executive orders concerning "sanctuary jurisdictions" for illegal immigrants.
Arkansas joined a half-dozen other states that have enacted restrictions on a common procedure for second-trimester abortions, with Gov. Asa Hutchinson signing the legislation hours after the Senate passed it Thursday.
A federal magistrate judge on Thursday blocked Ohio's plan to resume carrying out executions next month using a new three-drug process that, he said, could subject the condemned to cruel and unusual punishment.
Online retail giant Amazon will begin collecting sales tax in Missouri next month, as it does in dozens of other states.
A district judge has ordered the state Public Employees' Retirement System to release the names and other personal data of the more than 57,000 recipients of pension benefits.
A Washington state senator resigned Tuesday to take a job with President Donald Trump's administration, leaving the state Senate temporarily split 24-24 between Republicans and Democrats.
The state Legislature on Thursday overwhelmingly approved $326 million to be distributed among Minnesotans faced with hefty health insurance premium increases this year, sending the bill to Gov. Mark Dayton, who signed it.
The states and cities expanding early education have wrestled with the question of what qualifies as "universal."
As dozens of cities try to emulate Sweden's success, they're learning what works and what doesn't.
In much of the country, states are offering localities less financial help than they were before the recession. That won't change anytime soon.
The Spring Street Salt Shed has been lauded as one of the city's best public sculptures.
If transit systems want to attract more riders, they need to find ways to speed up the journey to work. See how the times compare in your metro area.
Kicking the can down the road is always tempting. But for infrastructure, innovative public-private partnerships offer a prudent alternative.
With a new online marketplace, Copenhagen is trying to enable an 'access economy'
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