News
Since 1990, CalPERS nation's largest public pension system, has paid out $3.4 billion in performance fees to its private equity managers since while the controversial sector generated $24.2 billion in profits for state retirees.
s Kentucky Gov. Steven L. Beshear prepares to leave office, he is attempting to leave his mark on an issue that has made his state an outlier.
The effectiveness of subsidies is hard to measure. A new rule will make it easier, but there's still a lot of information that governments aren't required to share about business deals.
A new study indicates that moving people into better public housing might result in reduced depressive symptoms, economic disadvantage, perceived community violence, and social disorder.
Eleven people, including a Berkeley, Calif., city employee, several UC Berkeley students, a seminary student and a freelance photojournalist, are seeking damages, saying police violated their First Amendment rights and injured them during the Dec. 6 protest.
Given the chance to move away from Austin following the Nov. 3 passage of Proposition 3, which repealed the state capital residency requirement in the Texas Constitution for certain statewide elected officials, reps for four of the five eligible said they would continue to live near the Capitol Complex.
Every month, Randy Huff, owner of a medical marijuana dispensary, writes a check for about $500 to the city of La Pine.
Acknowledging that a plan to resolve the five-month budget impasse is in "deep peril," Gov. Wolf on Monday blamed Republican legislators for the potential collapse of a tentative agreement and urged them to launch a new effort to save the deal.
Planned Parenthood and 10 of its patients sued the state of Texas on Monday to block officials from cutting off Medicaid funds, calling the state's actions "political" and part of a long-term pattern of denying reproductive health care to women.
Federal appeals judges on Monday agreed with a lower court that a politically polarizing 2013 abortion law is unconstitutional, finding it endangered the health of women.
Gov. Mike Pence is facing a federal lawsuit that challenges his power to block Syrian refugees from resettling in Indiana.
The day began and ended in a fight over Donald Trump's incursion into the home turf of 2016 presidential rival John Kasich.
But a new effort could provide a true count of the number as well as insights into why they became homeless in the first place.
Hoping to keep pollution out of the water, agencies are looking for ways to convince -- sometimes compel -- property owners to inspect and repair them.
Phones can detect your location, but emergency responders can’t. That’s all going to change soon.
Alternative weekly newspapers are going out of business all over the country, leaving a huge void in local government coverage. Who will scrutinize city halls now?
High-level officials around the country have recently been caught misusing their campaign funds.
The city's main train station, which shuttered its doors in 1988, is getting a makeover.
California is saving millions making people compare prices for certain medical services.
You most likely saw a photo or video of the millions of black plastic balls covering the Los Angeles Reservoir. They protect the region’s drinking water, but now they're being replaced.
Discovering anything about legislative pensions can be tricky. Kentucky legislators keep their retirement accounts separate and undisclosed.
Old houses are being torn down and replaced in suburbs all over the country. But not everyone, especially the people being priced out of once-affordable neighborhoods, is happy seeing the past obliterated.
Marijuana arrests in the state jumped 10 percent in 2012 and 2013, according to the latest New Jersey State Police Uniform Crime Reports.
Patients with mental illness are being detained in emergency rooms, often for weeks at a time. Now some states are rethinking the entire psychiatric care system.
Since Gov. Jerry Brown signed California’s end-of-life options bill last month, a new chapter is starting for Compassion & Choices, a Denver-based nonprofit that led the campaign for the measure and has pushed for such laws for nearly 19 years. California is the fifth state, and largest by far, to allow physicians to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to patients who want to end their lives in their last stages of terminal illnesses.
The public sector used to be a place of upward mobility for minorities, particularly black women.
Researches found insurers denied 16 percent of prescriptions for expensive drugs like Sovaldi, Harvoni and Viekira Pak, the drugs. The proportion of Medicaid denials, however, was 46 percent.
The US germ warfare defense system is erratic, a GAO report says, and cannot be counted on to detect an attack.
Twelve municipalities in St. Louis County sued the state on Thursday to try to stop what they called an unconstitutional new law that will limit the revenue they can make from fees and fines for minor traffic violations.
The subway scenario -- straphangers being terrorized by roving shooters -- was fake. The response from NYPD officers and other rescuers Sunday couldn't have been more real.
Most Read
