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Uber has agreed to pay up to $100 million and make several policy concessions to settle a pair of major class-action lawsuits in two states that will keep its drivers independent contractors instead of employees, both sides announced Thursday night.
Nebraska will allow thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children to work in at least 170 professions that require state licenses after lawmakers overrode Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts' veto of the measure.
Suicide in the United States has surged to the highest levels in nearly 30 years, a federal data analysis has found, with increases in every age group except older adults. The rise was particularly steep for women. It was also substantial among middle-aged Americans, sending a signal of deep anguish from a group whose suicide rates had been stable or falling since the 1950s
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that states can draw legislative districts with slightly different populations in an effort to benefit minority groups, even if the results help one political party over the other.
Our state, local and federal governments need to ramp up the sharing of technology and data beyond their enterprises.
Technology has a role in moving toward a goal of zero waste, but so does the "soft" infrastructure of citizen activism and effective policies.
Public officials need to understand how opinion research is evolving to meet modern challenges.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
A wildfire in Shenandoah National Park nearly doubled in size on Tuesday, thanks to strong winds and low humidity. The National Park Service says the blaze, named the Rocky Mount fire, has charred 4,000 acres.
A new federal study finds Oregon's child welfare system is failing across the board when it comes to keeping thousands of children in state care safe and healthy. According to the report, caseworkers are still taking too long to check on allegations of abuse and neglect.
Republicans and Democrats on Thursday will announce a plan for a Colorado presidential primary that would allow the state's unaffiliated voters to participate. More than one-third of Colorado voters — the largest bloc — are not affiliated with a party.
The Illinois Department of Revenue discovered that since 2014 it has doled out more than it should have to 6,500 local governments, thanks to an error in how it calculated the disbursements they receive each year to make up for their lack of power to tax businesses. Now it wants the $168 million back.
Gov. Sam Brownback plans to take more money from the state's highway fund, cut higher education spending and scrutinize other options in order o close a widening $290 million budget gap.
A statewide teachers group filed a lawsuit Wednesday in an attempt to block the state from implementing a controversial system that for the first time ties assessments of educators to student performance on standardized tests.
The state’s child welfare agency faces a $40 million budget shortfall, a critical shortage of good homes for foster children and overwhelming caseloads for staff, agency leaders told state lawmakers at a hearing on Wednesday.
Georgia's big plan to invest billions of dollars in new road projects may be about to get a giant thumbs up after Gov. Nathan Deal said preliminary results from an independent review show the effort could boost the state's economy and reduce traffic delays.
The U.S. Department of Justice has informed state officials that it is investigating Connecticut's "motor voter" program -- under which citizens can sign up to vote at the Department of Motor Vehicles -- and has found "widespread noncompliance" with federal laws.
Los Angeles workers would be able to earn at least six paid sick days annually -- twice the state minimum -- under a proposed law that the city council backed.
Five former New Orleans police officers involved in the Danziger Bridge shootings after Hurricane Katrina, or the coverup that followed, pleaded guilty in federal court in New Orleans on Wednesday, taking reduced sentences and avoiding another trial after their previous convictions were thrown out.
By showing what's possible, a Tennessee child-services provider has built a national reputation.
Term limits were billed as a way to get more women to run for office. It hasn't worked out that way.
Parents and voters are coming around to the idea that pay and job security ought to be related to performance in the classroom.
The most important election news and political dynamics at the state and local levels.
The majority of employee complaints result from weak managerial skills. What's being done to address it?
States are divided on whether the U.S. Supreme Court will help or hurt them when it rules on whether the country can go forward in bestowing some legal status to undocumented immigrant parents.
The ruling by the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals could shape the fight over House Bill 2 in North Carolina.
With three new confirmed cases of the disease, Miami-Dade is the hardest-hit county in the nation's hardest-hit state.
The new regulations may be the strictest in the nation.
The Michigan attorney general is set to announce felony and misdemeanor charges against as many as four people in state and local government connected to water contamination in Flint.
The special elections on Tuesday for the seats formerly held by Dean G. Skelos and Sheldon Silver, the two state legislative leaders who were forced to depart Albany after being convicted on corruption charges last year, were supposed to be a test of how long a shadow corruption could cast on a race.
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