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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced in an emergency order Thursday that it plans to take over lead sampling in Flint, Mich., after sharply criticizing local and state officials in the handling of the city's water crisis, saying repeated delays and a lack of transparency continue to pose "an imminent and substantial" danger to residents.
A federal court has declined to put President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan on hold, meaning Kentucky and other states that sued to block it must comply with it until the legal challenges are resolved.
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The presidential candidate wants America to create a single-payer health system -- something no U.S. state has done before.
Gov. Kate Brown on Wednesday had harsh words for the federal government's handling of a 19-day occupation at the Malheur National Wildfire Refuge -- calling the response too slow and saying it's left neighbors in Harney County lacking as tensions worsen.
Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, spent his eighth and final State of the State address Wednesday highlighting his accomplishments while in office and calling for increased education and mental health spending.
Gov. Nikki Haley asked S.C lawmakers to put more attention on fixing K-12 schools, rather than spending more money on the state's colleges, during her State of the State address Wednesday.
Detroit Public Schools is seeking a temporary injunction against teachers after a sickout closed 88 schools in Detroit today -- the largest in a string of teacher protests.
During a meeting of hundreds of city leaders this week at the White House, two Midwestern mayors who govern populations worried about their drinking water discovered similarities in their challenges.
Gov. Rick Snyder's staffers worried in September that the issue of lead in Flint's drinking water was being politicized and that the state's responsibility for the crisis was being exaggerated.
By linking environmental sustainability and economic growth, Charlotte is showing the way.
The Supreme Court restored death sentences Wednesday for three Kansas murderers by an 8-1 vote, undercutting predictions by some that a majority of the justices is ready to strike down capital punishment nationwide.
Teacher absences forced 88 Detroit schools to close today, the largest in a string of recent sick-outs meant to call attention to large class sizes, dilapidated buildings and other problems in Michigan's largest school district.
Republican legislative leaders in Illinois on Wednesday proposed a state takeover of Chicago Public Schools and permitting the troubled district to declare bankruptcy to get its finances in order, billing the controversial ideas as a "lifeline" and not "a state bailout."
Participating in daily fantasy sports amounts to illegal gambling in violation of Texas law, according to an opinion released Tuesday by Attorney General Ken Paxton.
A new GASB rule affecting cities that are part of state cost-sharing retirement plans will be painful, but it's a step forward.
No Child Left Behind's replacement focuses as never before on investing in what works.
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Gov. Susana Martinez on Tuesday set forth a sweeping agenda for the short 2016 legislative session, calling on lawmakers to get tough on crime, further stiffen DWI penalties, implement her education and economic development proposals and to finally pass a Real ID driver's license bill that has been a touchstone of her gubernatorial tenure.
Seeking to rehabilitate his sagging standing in the state, Gov. Scott Walker pledged Tuesday to spend more money on public education using savings from changes to state employee health plans.
The Republican governor of Iowa urged Tuesday that his state defeat Ted Cruz in the crucial Iowa precinct caucuses in less than two weeks, blasting the Texas senator for opposing federal support for ethanol.
Gov. Christie on Tuesday acted on more than 100 pieces of legislation, vetoing bills that would ban firearms for certain criminals, raise the smoking age, and preserve nonprofit hospitals' property-tax exemption.
Exactly three weeks before the nation's first presidential primary, Ohio Gov. John Kasich became the first GOP candidate not named Trump to reach 20 percent in any independent poll of New Hampshire this year.
Facing the biggest crisis of his five years as governor, demands for his resignation and even calls for his criminal prosecution, Gov. Rick Snyder accepted major responsibility for the Flint drinking water catastrophe in his State of the State address Tuesday and set out short-term plans and long-term promises to put things right.
President Barack Obama met Tuesday with Flint Mayor Karen Weaver to discuss high concentrations of lead found in her city's drinking water, offering continued logistical and technical support for efforts to address the crisis and dispatching an official from the Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate federal response.
Most of the city's problems, the mayor argues, are out of his control. Will voters blame and oust him anyways?
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide the legal fate of President Barack Obama's sweeping immigration program and rule on whether he has the power to offer "lawful presence" and a work permit to more than 4 million people living here illegally.
California Highway Patrol officers arrested 25 demonstrators after the group used the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday to chain themselves and their vehicles across all five westbound lanes of the Bay Bridge, bringing traffic to a standstill as they demanded racial equity.
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