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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.
The statistics on their participation in community life and elections are dismal. There's no one-size-fits-all fix.
It's the first municipality to center an awareness campaign around intrauterine devices, the most effective form of birth control that few women choose. Will others follow?
The county also is working on a data analytics pilot to assess how offenders move through the public safety and courts system.
With agency customers asking both for more and more complex cloud services, the Georgia Technology Authority is developing an enterprise approach to cloud.
The state's Department of Technology, Management and Budget has been working diligently to implement an enterprise information management program.
City officials are taking a new, less subjective look at their roads and how to fund them with a capital acceleration plan and a laser-equipped van geared toward removing guess work and saving money.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
How Utah, passed a bill by the GOP-controlled Legislature that raises the existing 24.5 cents per gallon state gas tax by about 5 cents to pay for state infrastructure projects.
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