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GOP presidential candidates point to the city's tough gun laws and high rates of gun violence as proof that the problem cannot be legislated away. But the truth is more complicated.
In a major blow to Gov. Wolf's agenda, the state House on Wednesday soundly rejected his proposal to increase funding for Pennsylvania schools through tax hikes, creating more uncertainty about how or when the state's 99-day budget impasse would be resolved.
The Michigan Senate today passed legislation that will make it tougher for law enforcement agencies to seize private property and also require police to better document how and why they took the property.
Portland is officially in a housing emergency. But what that actually means for the city's more than 1,800 people living on the street is still unclear.
The Ohio Attorney General's Office filed suit Tuesday against the city of Toledo, asking a judge to declare invalid several key sections of the city's new "Sensible Marihuana Ordinance."
Ending Medicaid expansion in Arkansas could have a “substantial cost” for the state, according to a consultant’s report.
By the end of 2030, half of California's electricity will come from the wind, the sun and other renewable sources under a new law that sets one of the country's most ambitious clean-energy targets.
Denied by banks, small business owners are increasingly turning to alternative lenders for help. But many hide the real cost of doing business.
Migration rates are near historic lows, but some places are still attracting large numbers of new residents. View data for every county.
A roundup of public-sector management news you need to know.
While other cities try to regulate or ban panhandlers, Albuquerque, N.M., offers them an income and social services for the day.
Installed on the Capitol grounds in 2012, the monument has been the source of friction. On Monday night state workers took it down.
Police officials here said the implementation of the technology isn’t far off from previous practices. It’s not a major change given the use of vehicle dashboard cameras and audio recorders for years, they said.
The report contained 30 recommendations for improving the department, which has more than 500 employees and a $10 billion budget and is characterized as "slow to change" and "beset by apathy."
The Illinois Department of Public Health will no longer provide testing of sexually transmitted infections for dozens of county health departments and other facilities, saying resources must be shifted to more complicated testing to identify disease outbreaks and biological threats.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen asking that the German automotive company be forced to provide state consumers a refund after it admitted to cheating U.S. emissions tests.
Recent heavy rains and floods across South Carolina that broke multiple dams and destroyed hundreds -- if not thousands -- of homes have turned a spotlight on the state's dam safety program.
A new California law, described as the toughest equal-pay measure in the nation, puts the state on the forefront of the women's rights movement, supporters said Tuesday.
Jennifer Roberts easily turned back incumbent Dan Clodfelter in Tuesday’s Democratic mayoral runoff and now faces Republican Edwin Peacock in an election that will guarantee Charlotte its fifth different mayor in less than three years.
Ohio seems to have taken a page from Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average.
The justices will hear cases this month on collective bargaining, juvenile justice, water rights and more.
The Hardest Hit Fund was established by Congress in 2010 to provide mortgage relief and other assistance to struggling homeowners as part of a wider effort to bail out the nation's economy. Florida's performance has lagged well behind other states because of a lack of federal oversight,
The state's notoriously overcrowded prisons are finally seeing some relief. But it wasn't the state that catalyzed the change -- it was the voters.
The service is useful for patients in rural areas, but right now the financial benefits are just theoretical.
Evolving techniques for managing stormwater aren't only cost-effective. They hold the promise of multiple urban benefits.
Governors and other state officials are traveling to Cuba to forge business ties with the island nation.
Almost a year into their new job, most have been largely successful. But some are struggling to lead.
Texas border cameras show that there's been a decline in smuggling interdiction amid a huge manpower surge.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Saturday intended to reduce racial profiling by police officers.
President Obama has withdrawn his nomination of former MBTA chief Beverly Scott to the National Transportation Safety Board, abruptly ending her controversial bid to the $155,000-a-year post, the Herald has learned.
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