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The Maine Department of Corrections on Monday issued its revised inmate discipline policy that reverses previous practices that prisoners, advocates and lawyers had said were unconstitutional, particularly restrictions on communicating with the outside world.
The layoffs announced Monday by Chicago Public Schools -- 62 workers, 17 of them teachers -- were far milder than feared earlier in the school year, but the district's plan to end its longstanding practice of picking up pension costs for teachers led to a fresh strike threat from the Chicago Teachers Union.
Gov. Scott Walker signed nearly four dozen bills on Monday, including a ban on county executives serving concurrently in the Legislature.
It shows how technology can come to people’s aid -- sometimes faster than government.
It’s time to take elections back from the parties and organizations that have given us the broken system of governance we now have.
These are the top challenges governments will need to address in 2016.
Is anyone trying to balance the fiscal inequities states impose on their localities?
Some of the skeptics are also the people with the most power to make a difference. Ignoring or denying the issue isn’t an option.
New Orleans has been battling an increase in noise complaints ever since outsiders moved there after Hurricane Katrina. Its found a way, though, to keep residents happier and music going.
Cities tend to favor building stadiums and convention centers over investing in education or human services. It's an understandable but troublesome trend.
A gritty blue-collar town in Minnesota reflects the tensions in many places located between cities and suburbs.
Unlike other oil-dependent states, Louisiana has deeper financial issues that began nearly a decade ago after Hurricane Katrina. The legislature is meeting in special session to deal with them.
More people face traffic tickets than criminal charges, but until now, only the latter could be looked up online here.
Poverty in Wisconsin hit its highest level in 30 years during the five-year period ending in 2014, even as the nation's economy was recovering from the Great Recession, according to a trend analysis of U.S. census data just released by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
The Billings Chamber of Commerce announced Friday it's joining a group of trade associations opposed to the federal Clean Power Plan, which seeks to cut carbon emissions from energy producers.
The legislative battle over Birmingham's minimum wage ended Thursday.
A study published Thursday confirmed that the 100,000 tons of methane that flowed out of Aliso Canyon was the largest natural gas leak disaster to be recorded in the United States, and that it doubled the methane emission rate of the entire Los Angeles basin.
Gov. Paul LePage privately called on his fellow Republican governors to disavow Donald Trump less than a week before LePage publicly endorsed the Republican presidential front-runner, according a newspaper report published Saturday.
States are starting to consider the problems with Alzheimer's care more seriously. But they have a long way to go.
Gov. Mary Fallin signed an executive order Wednesday requiring state agencies to eliminate questions about felony convictions from employment applications.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder removed his communications director and press secretary Thursday amid the ongoing Flint drinking water crisis, after each had been in their posts only a few months.
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval took himself out of consideration Thursday for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, a day after his name surfaced in speculation to fill the vacancy created by the death of Antonin Scalia.
A federal appellate court gave Louisiana the go-ahead Wednesday to enforce a 2014 state law requiring abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinics, a requirement clinic advocates say would force the closure of all but one of the state's facilities.
We learned from the failures that followed Hurricane Katrina. Will Flint's calamity teach us as well?
Two new initiatives show the increasing sophistication of an approach that pays social-services providers only for programs that work.
More than half a dozen governors are worth more than $100 million, worrying many about the influence of money on state politics.
Spurred by lawsuits and a growing understanding of the population’s challenges, some states are making detention centers safer for and more accepting of LGBT youth.
One of the nation’s most prominent libertarian legal activists is the newest member of the Arizona Supreme Court.
As this election year unfolds, our voting process will face intense scrutiny. A commitment to ethics is essential.
New York governors and mayors have often squabbled, but no one can remember a time when relations were worse -- and costing New York City so much.
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