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In a loss for local governments, the California Supreme Court decided Monday that online travel companies such as Expedia Inc. are exempt from paying hotel occupancy taxes.
The Democratic Governors Association is laying out the priorities it would like to see from the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Death came knocking at the Supreme Court's door twice last week, as it has done most weeks since the justices took the bench in early October.
Wisconsin's historic presidential recount ended Monday resulting in a net gain of 131 votes for President-elect Donald Trump over Democrat Hillary Clinton, the Wisconsin Elections Commission said.
A federal judge dealt a severe setback Monday to a longshot plan to deny Donald Trump the presidency through the Electoral College, refusing to suspend a Colorado law requiring the state's nine electors to vote for the presidential candidate who won the state in November.
Almost half the states cut their budgets this year, and that trend is likely to continue into 2017.
Gov. Christie may have picked a winner, but he isn't acting like one lately.
Rick Perry is a leading finalist to become secretary of energy in President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet, sources close to the former Texas governor said Sunday.
During the tough financial times of 2011, Marcy Willis, a single mother who raised five children in Atlanta, used her credit card to rent a car for an acquaintance in exchange for cash. But the man — and the car — disappeared, she said. Four months later, when Ms. Willis finally recovered the car and returned it, she was charged with felony theft.
Arkansas' highest court has thrown out a judge's ruling that could have allowed married same-sex couples to get the names of both spouses on their children's birth certificates without a court order.
Everyone in the courtroom could agree on this: If the acid in Mel Russell’s blood had been a minuscule amount higher, the little boy’s condition would have been caught before he suffered brain damage.
The FBI notified the Illinois Republican Party in June that some of its email accounts may have been hacked, but party officials were not told that it was part of a wide-ranging federal investigation of Russian activity in the nation's political system, the state GOP's executive director said Sunday.
The election of Donald Trump should remind us — again — of the vast difference between managing a company and running a government.
While it's important to train first responders, we also need to be ready to deal with survivors, their families and the loved ones of victims.
Employers say they can't find enough skilled workers. Colleges and employers have important roles to play in addressing that problem.
They would be mostly -- but not all -- good for state and local revenues.
Districts are experimenting with ways to get every student access to high-speed Internet. Right now, millions don't.
There's a big challenge that advocates need to recognize.
Progress is slow. Our overly enthusiastic forecasts prove that.
The housing shortages that plague most urban areas are a prime example of the complications that can arise when states take a back seat.
The Chicagos and Cincinnatis of the world are more vulnerable than they realize.
D.C. may be an object of Republican disdain, but it’s now at the center of governmental change.
A look back at their evolution may offer some idea of what lies ahead.
In a unanimous decision issued Thursday, the Missouri Supreme Court deemed a state law barring undocumented immigrants from being granted bail to be unconstitutional.
Advocates are hoping to replicate the success they had at the ballot box this year.
When a rock band's fireworks display exploded into flames at a crowded Rhode Island nightclub in February 2003, killing 100 people, fire safety in the nation's smallest state was governed by a patchwork of mostly outdated local regulations.
North Carolina's outgoing Republican Gov. Pat McCrory was briefly spotted in Trump Tower in New York City on Wednesday morning, but he gave no public indication about his meeting with President-elect Donald Trump.
Before she heads to her shift at a nursing home in New Haven, Connecticut, every morning, nursing assistant Elisha LaRose drops her 4-year-old son off at a day care center.
After serving three years as the lone woman in the S.C. Senate, Katrina Shealy is happy to have more company.
Montana Department of Transportation Director Mike Tooley told the Montana Contractors Association this week that it is delaying $144.5 million of road projects across the state as it faces a budget shortfall that could ultimately kill the contracts altogether, said association Executive Director Cary Hegreberg.
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