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A federal judge under fire for reportedly telling newly sworn-in U.S. citizens last week that Donald Trump is "your president, and if you don't like that, you need to go to another country," was suspended Monday from overseeing further citizenship ceremonies.
A panel of federal judges on Monday ruled that Wisconsin's 2011 legislative redistricting plan, created by Republican leaders virtually in secret, is an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.
Mayor Bill de Blasio issued a defiant challenge Monday to President-elect Donald Trump from the stage of the historic Cooper Union in Manhattan, saying New York City would not comply with federal policies that threaten its residents' rights.
When Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach met with President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday, he was carrying a copy of a plan for the Department of Homeland Security.
The city’s new open data website breaks down how sustainability is defined -- and how it’s being achieved.
The idea that needle exchanges encourage illegal drug use is fading just as rapidly as the programs are expanding.
Whoever wins this month faces the tough job of uniting and rebuilding a community that’s still hurting from deadly police shootings and floods.
Budget cutbacks are forcing many of them to find more sustainable funding models. See how your state's parks are funded.
San Francisco has built some of the most beautiful and colorful stairs.
Financial statements can make the best case for public works investors.
The state is on track to enacting first-in-the-nation rules about how banks respond to cyberattacks. Some say they're misguided.
For one, realize that you have the "curse of knowledge."
They often fall under the radar, but compacts are becoming a top tool for managing interstate issues.
There’s a dispute about whether the movement toward city living is real. But this either/or battle is a distraction.
On Portland’s newest bridge, there’s just one rule: no cars allowed. Other cities may follow the progressive city’s lead.
The president-elect and his Republican Congress will surely change health care -- but first, they have to decide how.
Cities and states have very different ideas for fixing decrepit urban highways.
Faced with a rising death toll from opioid abuse, Texas public health officials in May decided to apply for a $1 million federal grant to purchase Naloxone, a drug that, if administered during an overdose, can save the life of a person addicted to heroin or pain pills.
The State Board of Elections on Sunday rejected a request from Gov. Pat McCrory’s campaign to take over election protest reviews, instead setting a 10 a.m. Tuesday meeting to set guidelines for counties to address the complaints.
Six states lacked the legal right to challenge a California law that prohibits the sale off eggs from chickens that are not raised in accordance with strict space requirements, a federal appeals court said Thursday.
In light of ongoing Dakota Access Pipeline protest activities and increased demand on law enforcement, lawmakers broke tradition Thursday by canceling the traditional State of the Judiciary Address and Tribal-State Relationship message held during the first week of the upcoming legislative session.
Nearly 100,000 Oregonians who otherwise may not have voted cast ballots in the Nov. 8 election after registering to vote in the state’s new automatic voter registration program, Democratic Secretary of State Jeanne Atkins said.
A man being sought as a suspect in the shooting of a St. Louis police officer Sunday night was shot and killed in a shootout with police early Monday.
As delays and safety issues continue on privatized transit systems, that arrangement is getting new scrutiny.
Even if there’s a retail health clinic less than a 10-minute drive away, consumers are just as likely to go to the emergency department for low-level problems like bronchitis or urinary tract infections, a recent study found.
Mayor Bill de Blasio emerged from Trump Tower to a sea of reporters and cable-news cameras.
Ohio can impose its commercial activity tax on out-of-state businesses lacking a bricks-and-mortar presence in the state, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled today.
Maryland's chief tax collector said Wednesday that his office accidentally misdirected $21.4 million of local income tax payments for years, a mistake that affects nearly every municipality in the state.
A St. Louis County couple who divorced after having embryos frozen and stored nine years ago will maintain joint custody but neither can use them without the other's consent, the Missouri Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley met Thursday with President-elect Donald Trump in New York, but details of the meeting were scarce.
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