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What to do when an initiative's funding ends and the original champion moves on.
Many state capitols were designed to inspire with soaring architecture. The view from the top offers a unique perspective.
The City Council on Tuesday made it illegal for anyone to use a public bathroom that doesn't align with the gender they were born with.
Gov. Mary Fallin signed into law Thursday a bill saying judges may award attorney fees to people whose assets were unjustly seized by law enforcement.
Gov. Jay Nixon kept his end of the bargain.
Thousands of Iowa felons will have an easier time applying to win back their voting rights after changes to the application form were announced Wednesday.
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx stepped up his pressure on Metro to improve its safety performance Thursday by replacing three members of the transit agency’s board with experienced transportation-safety professionals.
The director of licensing and regulatory oversight at the Oregon Department of Human Services is stepping down amid criticism over how the agency manages foster care providers.
St. Paul, Minn., wants its urban areas to welcome everyone -- whether they're 8 or 80 years old.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
As the movement slows, policymakers have the opportunity to explore whether school choice has improved education overall.
A sweeping Medicaid change has the potential for states to address the dangerous shortage of doctors outside urban and suburban areas.
He’s not the governor. He’s not a lawmaker. But thanks to the way he runs his state’s pension plans, David Bronner may be the most powerful man in Alabama.
The city has made real progress in its battle against homicide, but a recent rise in crime puts it all into question.
After a population explosion and building binge led to haphazard and random growth, Miami became the nation's first big urban area to adopt a citywide code based on looks.
The most important election news and political dynamics at the state and local levels.
PTSD is common among those who respond to disasters and other emergencies. It's hard to deal with, but there are ways to help them.
Bad press has blurred the fact that not all public pension plans are underfunded and overly generous.
Two Montgomery County residents won the Democratic and Republican primaries for Pennsylvania attorney general Tuesday and will face each other in the fall for the right to succeed Kathleen Kane, the embattled incumbent who opted not to seek re-election.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser announced Wednesday that he's retiring on July 31 after nearly 18 years on the high court -- including some of its most turbulent -- and four decades in public life.
Gov. Paul LePage has vetoed a funding fix that the Maine Legislature approved for the Maine Clean Election Fund.
A former Oklahoma volunteer sheriff's deputy who said he mistook his handgun for his stun gun when he fatally shot an unarmed suspect last year was convicted of second-degree manslaughter on Wednesday.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam on Wednesday signed into law a controversial bill that allows therapists and counselors with "sincerely held principles" to turn away lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender clients among others.
Skeptical Supreme Court justices probed the definition of "official act" here Wednesday, searching for the line between politics and corruption that is so crucial to the bribery case against former Gov. Bob McDonnell
Ten percent of 911 calls involve mental health situations that most police aren’t prepared to deal with, leading to sometimes tragic outcomes.
As the city prepares to debut new streetcars, here’s a last look at their old ones.
Alarming infection rates bring more attention to treatment in communities of color.
To further their causes, Democrats are bypassing lawmakers and turning to voters.
A bipartisan group of public officials, called the 20/20 Club, is working to translate the energy of the movement into meaningful legislation on law enforcement and criminal justice.
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