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When cities try to regulate them, they find themselves in a legal minefield.
As more states make medical and recreational marijuana use legal, they increasingly are grappling with what constitutes DUID, or driving under the influence of drugs, and how to detect and prosecute it.
With more than 70 percent of California now classified in a state of "exceptional" or "extreme" drought, Uncle Sam is floundering.
In 2010, Florida passed a tougher law regulating pain-management clinics. A new study indicates the law resulted in "modest decreases" in the use of drugs like Vicodin and oxycodone.
On Thursday, Illinois became the fourth state — after California, New Jersey, and Oregon — to ban conversion therapy for people younger than 18.
The state of Texas should have done more to protect the safety of drinking water for two small border communities in Webb County, defense lawyers argued Thursday in the criminal trial for two former water treatment plant employees.
Gov. Wolf on Thursday announced a series of small benefits upgrades for all families with coverage though the Children's Health Insurance Program, effective Dec. 1.
A lawsuit filed against the Kansas Secretary of State's Office in federal court alleges that Assistant Secretary of State Eric Rucker fired a woman because she would not attend a Christian religious service.
The young women approach tourists in Times Square and pose for photos, wearing nothing but a thong and a feathered headdress, their bare breasts painted with patriotic colors in a thin simulation of a bikini top. Then they ask for a tip.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Wednesday he is open to continuing to accept federal funding for Medicaid expansion if the federal government grants the state increased flexibility in shaping its health-care programs.
Ohio prisons officials, scrambling to find drugs for the next execution just five months away, had the door slammed on obtaining them from foreign sources.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Kansas is among the states seeking to counter shrinking population in rural counties with tax incentives and other programs.
A Florida Department of Law Enforcement audit finds 7,877 items, including 19 guns and 44 caches of seized narcotics, have gone missing from Sweetwater, Fla. evidence rooms since 2010.
New ideas and players are coalescing to provide attractive options for the livability of cities. That's good news for economic development.
From car pools to practices, a growing number of families using ride-booking services to schlep kids to and from school, after-school activities and other destinations.
The killing of an 18-year-old black man by St. Louis police in the city's Fountain Park neighborhood ignited protests once again Wednesday, with an angry crowd disputing police accounts of the incident.
The state’s beleaguered child welfare agency — grappling with the death of a 2-year-old girl at an Auburn foster home — has seen the number of staffers handling “crisis-level” workloads more than triple over a recent 18-month period, statistics show.
Down in the polls, Governor Christie used an education summit in New Hampshire to push his New Jersey success stories and take shots, first at a teachers union that partnered with him, then at rival Jeb Bush, who said earlier in the day that he couldn’t work with the union in his state.
The state's Office of Open Records has ruled that government agencies are not permitted to charge fees if people requesting public records wish to use their smartphones to photograph the records they are examining.
The floor of the Central Valley is sinking at a record pace as drought-gripped farmers pump out the groundwater beneath them, new satellite data show.
Burlington, Wash., was a small city fighting what seemed like a local lawsuit.
Texas Supreme Court ruled the city council must reword the language because the vote should be on whether to affirm the ordinance, not repeal it.
Anomalies in the tax code flummox consumers and retailers and drive state tax departments to issue complicated rulings _ all in the name of clarifying things that on the surface seem incongruous.
The job prepares politicians for the next level. But not many use it as a stepping stone.
The Best and Brightest Scholarship has come under heavy criticism, including from some of the lawmakers who approved it this summer.
Citing the high costs of specialty drugs as well as pent-up demand among the newly insured, the state's largest insurer -- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan -- received permission to raise its premium rates 11.4% for individual policies in 2016. And its Blue Care Network health maintenance organization will raise individual rates 9.7%. Both entities combined cover 310,000 people.
The changes signed by Chris Christie last week are considered progressive in their approach to handle juvenile offenders, focusing more on rehabilitation instead of severe punishment.
Some states still have barriers for married gay couples looking to adopt from foster care, despite the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage.
Minorities are underrepresented in nearly every large law enforcement agency in America. Some police agencies are now looking to change that.
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