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New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez on Thursday ended her neutral stance on the contest for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination by endorsing Marco Rubio.
In a significant victory for the Obama administration, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Thursday refused to block an Environmental Protection Agency regulation limiting emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants from coal-fired power plants.
Here’s what some places are already doing to accommodate self-driving and connected vehicles.
There's a growing movement -- even in some conservative states with strict abortion regulations -- to make birth control more accessible.
Attorney General Kathleen Kane's closest confidant and driver, Patrick Reese, was sentenced to 3 to 6 months of jail and fined $1,000 Thursday for violating a judge's order by snooping through coworkers' emails to keep tabs on a grand jury investigating his boss.
The growing threat of cybercrime has exposed just how vulnerable police departments are to it.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Many cities are trying to use behavioral science to better communicate with citizens. New Orleans is testing the effectiveness of different text messages.
On his first full day leading Detroit Public Schools, retired U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes laid out his vision for launching a financially sound school district that will be able to aggressively compete for students.
The LePage administration on Wednesday introduced a bill that would create new restrictions for prescribing opioids to control pain, as part of the state's effort to combat the heroin epidemic. If approved, Maine would have one of the strictest prescribing standards for opioids in the country, a national expert said.
The District, Maryland and Virginia have agreed on a plan to create an independent agency that will oversee safety at Metro, officials said Wednesday.
New Orleans police will no longer cooperate with federal immigration enforcement, a momentous change likely to elicit denunciations from opponents of such "sanctuary city" policies.
When Kansas Republicans decided to offer absentee voting for the first time in their presidential caucus, they expected to get maybe 300 applications.
The four liberal members of the U.S. Supreme Court took turns tearing into Texas' controversial anti-abortion law at a highly anticipated hearing Wednesday, raising the possibility of a landmark court ruling that could make the procedure easier to access nationwide for years to come.
The most important election news and political dynamics at the state and local levels.
Changes in numbers of foreign born residents for more than 300 cities.
The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow Tuesday to nascent efforts to track the quality and cost of health care, ruling that a 1974 law precludes states from requiring that every health care claim involving their residents be submitted to a massive database.
We have to have them, so we might as well make them as productive as possible.
People running for public office fill out a lot of questionnaires for interest groups. The public ought to know what the candidates are saying.
The group's top priority will be preserving the tax-exempt status of municipal bonds, which President Obama wants to reduce for higher earners.
Gov. Susana Martinez on Monday signed into a law a $6.2 billion budget that cuts state government spending from current levels as New Mexico's sagging economy continues to take a hard hit from low oil prices.
Kansas tax receipts fell $53 million short of estimates in February, and Gov. Sam Brownback on Tuesday immediately announced a $17 million cut to the state's university system.
South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard on Tuesday vetoed a proposed law that would have been the first in the country to require transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that match the gender listed on their birth certificates.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Tuesday to expand a tax on the health insurance industry so that the state doesn't lose $1 billion in federal funding.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to rule on a legal dispute between Governor Christie and New Jersey public labor unions suing over billions of dollars in missed payments to the state pension system.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday sent letters to governors and water regulators across the U.S. promising greater enforcement of rules to protect citizens from lead in drinking water in the wake of the crisis in Flint and urging every state to locate lead water lines as required.
California's system of seizing and spending "unclaimed" cash from banks, mutual funds and defunct businesses has survived a Supreme Court challenge.
A federal judge overrode Gov. Mike Pence's attempt to stop Syrian refugee resettlement in Indiana, issuing a preliminary injunction Monday that the state immediately contested.
Advocates of low-cost housing scored a legal victory Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court left intact a ruling by California's highest court allowing cities and counties to require builders to include a percentage of affordable units in each new development.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach on Monday endorsed Donald Trump for president -- and he backed Trump's plan to force Mexico to pay for a border wall.
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