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Saint Paul, Minn., positions stormwater as a resource.
The 2015-2016 state supreme court election cycle has attracted big money from outside groups.
New data shows some public-sector workers are suffering fewer injuries and illnesses, while others aren't experiencing any improvement.
Montana’s new campaign disclosure law has survived its first test, with a federal judge rejecting arguments that it unconstitutionally interferes with the free speech of groups that want to influence elections without revealing where they get their money or how they spend it.
The superintendents and elected school boards of 11 Texas districts — including Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth — have been ordered by the state education agency to attend two-day training programs to learn how to fix their failing schools.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's campaign Tuesday said the mayor won't return a $50,000 campaign contribution from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
State officials on Tuesday rejected Atlantic City’s five-year fiscal recovery plan that city officials had spent the previous 150 days designing, setting the stage for a likely court battle — and perhaps ultimately a state takeover of the beleaguered city’s finances.
For many women in California, a new law that was supposed to make getting birth control easier has been a little disappointing.
Guns cannot be carried onto school property unless someone is picking up or dropping off a student, the state's top court ruled Monday.
An explosion and fire at a pipeline that delivers about one-third of the gasoline used on the East Coast is expected to raise prices at the pump and shows the fragility of a delivery system that is relied upon by tens of millions of people.
Unlike the gubernatorial races, Republicans are the ones playing defense.
As other states launch similar plans to improve education, Georgia is back to the drawing board.
Republican Phil Scott said Monday he generally supports abortion rights, but if he's elected governor he could imagine signing bills barring some late-term abortions or restricting minors' access to the procedure.
The New Mexico tax department has agreed to stop automatically withholding income tax refunds from many foreign nationals without Social Security numbers who file under alternative identification numbers provided by the IRS, a New Mexico state senator said Friday.
They questioned each other’s business experience and acumen, tossed in some jabs about politicking and pandering, but the men who would be New Hampshire’s next governor were united during a Halloween debate in their appreciation of “The Walking Dead.”
A federal judge has rejected the settlement of a lawsuit stemming from the New York Police Department’s surveillance of Muslims, saying the proposed deal does not provide enough oversight of an agency that he said had shown a “systemic inclination” to ignore rules protecting free speech and religion.
A shorthanded Supreme Court on Friday entered the bathroom wars, as justices agreed to consider a transgender student's access rights.
Tens of thousands of Facebook users across the U.S. have been falsely "checking in" at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota after a viral message claimed that investigators were tracking protesters on Facebook.
Gov. John Kasich, who had vowed not to vote for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, voted Monday by absentee ballot.
Despite last-minute negotiations and a visit from Democratic heavy-hitter Congressman Bob Brady, 4,738 transit workers walked off the job Monday night, beginning a strike that halted subways, trolleys and buses in Philadelphia.
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Voters in three states approved "Marsy's Law," which ensures victims and their families are informed of developments in a criminal case.
Voters rejected a controversial measure that pit environmentalists versus electric utilities.
With nine days until the general election, almost 22 million people have already voted, through early voting and absentee ballots. In many states, the number of early voters is lower than at the same point in the 2012 cycle.
The city measure seeks to raise $3 million a year for a public college fund to give all the city’s public high school graduates and GED recipients tuition for at least the first year of community or technical college or the equivalent toward state public university tuition.
Two longtime Salem lawmakers are battling for the office of secretary of state in what has become the most hotly contested and bitter race in the state, with each candidate accusing the other of hitting below the belt.
Miami-Dade County has never seen a mayoral race quite like the one unfolding this fall between incumbent Carlos Gimenez and challenger Raquel Regalado. After narrowly missing an outright win in the August primary, Gimenez became the first incumbent mayor forced into a November runoff since the position was given executive power in 1996.
A divided federal appeals court has upheld Arizona's law that bars any person from collect the voted or unvoted ballot of anyone else, finding the state's need to hold orderly elections outweighs any unproven impact it might have on minority voters.
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