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Beginning in July, Massachusetts hospitals will have to evaluate for substance abuse anyone who arrives at an emergency room suffering from an apparent opioid overdose.
One morning this month, Silvia Cota, a nurse supervisor in the emergency room at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, gathered her nurses together in a huddle to prepare them for the future.
As many as 13.1 million people living along U.S. coastlines could face flooding by the end of the century because of rising sea levels, according to a new study that warns that large numbers of Americans could be forced to relocate to higher ground.
DeRay Mckesson insists his campaign is about more than race.
Ohio must let 17-year-olds vote in the state's March 15 primary, if they turn 18 by Election Day, a judge ruled in a boost to Bernie Sanders.
The legislative session fraught with labor and social issues that raised the hackles of many a lawmaker ended Saturday night on a more peaceful note than many state government spectators would have thought possible after is rocky beginning.
Oregon's most consequential energy bill in decades -- a nationally ambitious plan to wean the state off coal and boost renewable sources -- has become law.
States are spending millions fighting the law that courts uphold almost every time.
Rail union leaders cheered. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie smiled. And hundreds of thousands of New Jerseyans were assured of a routine rail commute to work Monday without an immediate fare hike.
The national uproar over lead poisoning in Flint, Mich., has drawn renewed attention to a children's health crisis that has plagued Pennsylvania and Jersey for decades.
Over objections from doctors and medical groups, West Virginia legislators have put into law a ban on the most common abortion procedure for pregnancies in the second trimester.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Saturday repeatedly slammed Rahm Emanuel and called on front-runner Hillary Clinton to reject the embattled mayor's endorsement as the Vermont senator tries to boost his chances in Tuesday's Illinois primary.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio took the unusual step of urging his supporters in Ohio to vote for Gov. John Kasich in Tuesday's Ohio Republican presidential primary in an effort to keep Donald Trump from winning the party's presidential nomination.
The Justice Department on Monday pledged $2.5 million to help state judges and court administrators ensure their systems for levying fines and fees do not violate the rights of poor defendants.
The city is at the forefront of the emerging concept of mobility management.
The Housing First approach has seen a lot of success over the past two decades, but it faces serious challenges at a critical juncture.
A San Francisco experiment is demonstrating that by combining multiple challenge statements into one RFP, the procurement process doesn't have to be as slow and unwieldy.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe vetoed legislation Thursday that would have stopped local governments from removing Confederate monuments.
Lawmakers this legislative session had two fundamental responsibilities: Come up with a full plan for K-12 education funding and pass a supplemental budget.
A sprawling Central Valley water district run by some of the state's wealthiest growers papered over its drought-related financial struggles and misled investors, federal regulators said Wednesday.
Nearly three years after Texas lawmakers passed a law requiring some applicants for unemployment benefits to pass a drug test, the state has yet to test a single applicant, and it remains unclear when the program will get going.
Rafael Rivera left Puerto Rico for Central Florida late last year, fed up with the island's escalating debt crisis and dwindling sales at his cellphone shop.
Moody's Corp. will pay $130 million to the California Public Employees' Retirement System to settle allegations that the ratings agency acted negligently by giving top scores to ultimately toxic investments that cost the pension fund hundreds of millions of dollars, CalPERS said Wednesday.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed a proposal Wednesday that makes it illegal in most cases to collect and drop off someone else's ballot.
A state House committee strongly rejected a bill Wednesday that would abolish the death penalty, saying the state needed to retain capital punishment as a sentencing option.
The former businessman talks about betting his political career on fixing the Last Frontier’s finances.
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A West Virginia lawmaker who passed out cups of raw milk to celebrate passage of a raw milk-related bill says the unpasteurized beverage had nothing to do with an intestinal virus that plagued a number of House of Delegates members and staffers last weekend.
The costs of the Flint drinking water crisis continued to climb Tuesday as Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder asked the State Administrative Board to approve contracts worth up to $1.2 million to cover his outside legal bills and Attorney General Bill Schuette asked for approval of a $1.5 million contract with attorney Todd Flood to cover the cost of his investigation into the public health disaster.
The full U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to take up the Texas voter ID case Wednesday, adding another chapter to the law’s convoluted journey through the federal court system.
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