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Southern Californians learn to live with the risk of earthquakes.
It's official. President Barack Obama's immigration plan is dead.
Roy Moore said he offered advice to probate judges. Prosecutors said he hurled defiance at federal law.
When the Arkansas insurance commissioner weighed the merits of a hospital’s billing complaint against United Healthcare, her interactions with one of the nation’s largest health insurers extended far beyond her department’s hearing room.
In a surprise announcement Friday afternoon, Gov. Christie and legislative leaders said they had reached a deal to raise New Jersey's gasoline tax by 23 cents a gallon.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Sue Minter wants to expand the cap-and-trade program to gasoline, a move that added 11 cents to the price of a gallon of gas in California.
Burlington County's new ban against hiring "double dippers" may be the first of its kind in New Jersey, according to county officials, who say the purpose is to cut out pension abuse.
Even before one of its trains crashed in Hoboken Terminal on Thursday morning, killing one woman and injuring more than 100 others, New Jersey Transit was an agency in distress.
Texas ended its participation in the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program on Friday because of Gov. Greg Abbott's concerns that the federal government couldn't adequately guarantee that none of the newcomers would pose a security threat.
Nearly 7 million workers for California companies will be automatically enrolled in a new state-run retirement program under a bill signed Thursday by Gov. Jerry Brown.
As Wisconsin and Arizona are demonstrating, fiscally sustainable retirement systems aren't an impossible dream.
As states enact new right-to-work laws, organized labor is losing in the legislatures. So it's trying to end-run them in the courts.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the state’s education savings account law, ruling that while the premise of using taxpayer money for private education was constitutional, the method used to fund the ESA program was not.
California will overhaul its election system beginning in 2018 so that voters have more options on when and where to cast their ballots in future elections, under a bill Gov. Jerry Brown signed Thursday.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has decided that Act 13, the state Legislature's 2012 attempt to accommodate the shale gas industry is an unconstitutional "special law" that benefits specific groups or industries.
She called police because her brother was "not acting like himself."
The mundane rituals of the daily commute exploded into a chaotic scene of ripped metal, tumbling steel beams and screaming riders early Thursday as an NJ Transit train from Bergen County plowed through a barrier at the Hoboken train station, killing a Hoboken woman, injuring more than 100 and sparking a federal investigation that will try to answer why the train failed to stop.
The nation’s largest health insurer and the University of California Health system are joining forces to create a new health plan option for employers and expand research into patient data.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
An evenly divided court could decide the fate of many cases watched closely by state and local officials.
Californians were the only to agree to raise the price of tobacco. Will it impact smoking rates?
As public interactions are driven by data, government has an obligation to make that information accessible.
Another shoe has dropped on the West Virginia economy, as another of the "big three" credit rating agencies downgraded the state's bond rating Wednesday.
Like Donald Trump, the candidates for Missouri governor are making it difficult to determine how much they earned and paid in taxes last year.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday soundly struck down New Hampshire's ban on ballot selfies concluding it restricted innocent, political speech in the pursuit of what the judges called an "unsubstantiated and hypothetical danger" of vote-buying.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Wednesday that eliminates the 10-year statute of limitations on rape -- a concern that emerged last year as dozens of women stepped forward to accuse actor Bill Cosby of rape but were unable to pursue criminal charges.
Gov. Christie returned to his drug recovery message Tuesday as he announced expanded efforts by the state to tackle opioid addiction.
The answer is apparently not blowing in the wind. At least not in Wyoming. At least not for the state's Republican-led Legislature, which has spent months looking for ways to close a multimillion-dollar gap in the state budget.
For African-American boys, the presumption of guilt starts before they have entered a kindergarten classroom, new research shows.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld Alabama's ban on transfers between political action committees, saying it didn't affect a political group's ability to make independent expenditures.
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