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The largest private provider of health insurance policies on Kynect, Kentucky's health insurance exchange, is going out of business.
A long-awaited deal between Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will ensure $26.1 billion in MTA transportation infrastructure projects can go forward, including the completion of East Side Access and the construction of a second LIRR track between Farmingdale and Ronkonkoma, officials said Saturday.
Attorney General Roy Cooper presented himself to voters Monday as a standard-bearer who can restore North Carolina to a legacy tarnished by three years of Republican domination by recommitting to education and fighting for the working class and small businesses.
Several states limit the topic of their legislative sessions every other year to money, and Louisiana voters rejected a ballot measure to add corporate giveaways to that conversation.
School choice, including controversial tax credit scholarships, tops a lengthy list of public education issues Dan Patrick has asked state senators to study ahead of the 2017 legislative session.
The signing of a new privacy bill was celebrated by privacy advocates and major technology companies alike.
Johns Hopkins University launched an initiative to fill more jobs with residents from distressed Baltimore neighborhoods, boost the use of minority contractors and vendors from those areas. Other hospitals across the country also have shown a greater inclination to address poverty in their communities.
With slim near-term prospects for additional state or federal funding, the project needs billions of dollars in private investment to supplement government funding as it tries to complete its first passenger-carrying segment.
The initiative comes from state legislation this year this year that allows pharmacists, working with doctors, to fill naloxone orders to caregivers and others in their communities without a prescription.
Oregon sues Propylon, an Irish company, for breach of contract. The company is still working with the Kansas Legislature, however.
Year after year, private companies dependent on Medicaid funding don't pay their employees. Mental health agencies, home health care companies and group homes accounted for more unresolved wage payment cases than any other single industry in North Carolina.
Reproductive health clinics run by abortion opponents moved immediately to head off enforcement of a bill signed Friday by Gov. Jerry Brown that would require the clinics to inform patients that abortion services are available elsewhere.
Capping a year dominated by uncommonly personal and emotional debates in the Capitol, California Gov. Jerry Brown ended his work on legislation Sunday by banning the use of "Redskin" for school mascots, refusing to bar Confederate names on public buildings and declining new access to experimental drugs for the gravely ill.
A federal appeals court has blocked a major Obama administration clean water rule, handing an early victory to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and other states trying to drown it in court.
The Montana Board of Pardons and Parole has adopted a policy on how it will implement a new law that allows the governor to grant clemency to prisoners even if the board recommends against it.
Georgia still hasn’t lived up to its part of an agreement with the federal government to shift severely mentally ill residents out of state mental hospitals and into community settings, the Justice Department said in a scathing letter that demanded a corrective action plan by November.
Stephanie Douglas signed up for health insurance in January with the best intentions. She had suffered a stroke and needed help paying for her medicines and care.
State officials say the opiate epidemic is a reason more children are landing in foster care.
Although larger practices have the resources to provide benefits to patients through better care coordination or access to new technologies, these practices’ greater market power may enable them to charge higher prices.
Voters in majority-black Memphis on Thursday elected the city's first white mayor in 24 years as City Councilman Jim Strickland's message of change propelled him over incumbent A C Wharton.
The court of public opinion is ever-more swift and damning.
The state said it had filed an eminent domain action against the City of Margate to gain access to city-owned beachfront easements needed for the state's dune project.
As more states legalize either medical or recreational marijuana use, members of Congress are being asked to take positions. The results are often cringe-worthy.
The Baker administration has bounced the state's longtime ad agency after a Herald investigation revealed it got $20 million from a hidden, taxpayer-funded account created by former Gov. Deval Patrick to skirt the budget ax.
Following in the footsteps of Harris County and the city of Dallas, the state announced Thursday it is suing Volkswagen in connection with the German automaker's admitted use of software that allowed its vehicles to circumvent emissions limits.
There have been so many problems in carrying out executions in Oklahoma that it's hard to say whether the death penalty can continue in this state, Gov. Mary Fallin said Thursday.
Every city inmate must receive a "bill of rights," and jail guards' use-of-force policies must be publicly disclosed under legislation that Mayor Bill de Blasio signed Wednesday at City Hall.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday signed 23 new environmental bills into law, banning tiny plastic beads in cosmetics that scientists say are polluting the ocean and San Francisco Bay, toughening oil pipeline laws and requiring the state's massive pension funds to sell off their coal stocks.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law the Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees Act, legislation introduced by U.S. 2nd District Rep. Brett Guthrie.
A lawsuit could force the city to review what "displacement" means under the California Environmental Quality Act.
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