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Tennessee's insurance regulator made her remarks after signing off on hefty premium hikes in an extraordinary bid to keep the program afloat.
The governor called the twin measures "a real commitment backed up by real power."
Since January, the police have quietly been working with a private company providing surveillance video shot from a plane high above the city.
The most important election news and political dynamics at the state and local levels.
Financial timeliness is a problem that's 'widespread and pervasive,' the SEC said.
Unlike Detroit or Stockton, this California city’s insolvency can’t be blamed on debt or pensions.
A town in Utah that was competing to serve as the home of a new Facebook data center announced Tuesday it is withdrawing from negotiations with a subsidiary of the tech firm, leaving Los Lunas as the last known candidate for the site.
Philadelphia's ban on non-commercial advertisements at the city's airport, sparked by a rejected billboard calling for prison reform, is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled in a decision published Tuesday.
Just under 400 people will be infected with the Zika virus by mosquitoes in Florida by mid-September, and about 80 of them will develop symptoms, according to projections developed by an international team of scientists from the University of Florida and half a dozen other research institutions.
Mayor Ed Murray has hired Seattle's first-ever cabinet-level director of homelessness, he said Tuesday.
About once a week for much of 2015, Kamia Edwards’ son was too sick to go to school.
Ramping up its fight over the rights of transgender people, Texas filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the federal government over a regulation prohibiting discrimination against transgender individuals in some health programs.
Judging from what they're saying, plenty of the nation's governors favor limited-government, taxpayer-friendly policies.
The feds are moving away from them, but states and localities still rely on them. That puts the larger issue of privatization back in the spotlight.
Individual orders have gone out re-restoring voting rights for some 13,000 former felons in Virginia, Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced Monday.
On his third visit to Miami since the nation's first outbreak of Zika, Gov. Rick Scott on Monday once again asked Washington for more help fighting the infectious disease -- even as he fended off accusations that he's not disclosing new cases quickly enough.
While a new state law requires children to be vaccinated to attend public or private school, thousands of California students are filing into classrooms this month without the required immunizations.
More than 4,000 items in alcohol-related cases across the state were analyzed incorrectly by Michigan State Police's Forensic Science Division, officials said today.
Body camera footage of a fatal police shooting that sparked unrest in Milwaukee's Sherman Park neighborhood will not be released until the Milwaukee County district attorney makes a charging decision, Attorney General Brad Schimel said Monday.
Monday was the end of the line for a landmark California case challenging tenure and other traditional job protections for teachers -- and the teachers won.
Gov. Bruce Rauner on Friday used his amendatory veto power to rewrite a bill that would have ended the state's growing practice of suing prison inmates to recover the costs of their incarceration -- effectively killing the legislation, according to the bill's two sponsors.
Ohio officials do not intend to follow the lead of the federal government in abandoning private prison operations.
Politicians and voting rights advocates continue to clash over whether photo ID and other voting requirements are needed to prevent voter fraud, but a News21 analysis and recent court rulings show little evidence that such fraud is widespread.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Obama administration's instructions for public schools to accommodate transgender students, siding late Sunday with Texas and a dozen other states that challenged the contentious guidelines for bathrooms and other facilities.
Holding a defendant in jail simply because they can’t afford a fixed bail amount is unconstitutional, the Justice Department said in a brief it filed Thursday in a Georgia lawsuit.
The proposals could reshape several large U.S. cities for decades to come -- if they pass.
North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple issued an emergency declaration for southwest and south central North Dakota in response to protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline near Cannon Ball.
Utah, a state where even regular beer is considered too intoxicating, has made possession of heroin or cocaine a misdemeanor rather than a felony.
After nearly a decade as Baltimore's top lawyer, City Solicitor George A. Nilson will no longer lead the city law department, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced Friday.
With Miami-Beach now listed as a local source of the Zika virus, federal officials are advising pregnant women and their partners who are concerned about the virus to avoid non-essential travel to anywhere in Miami-Dade County.
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