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Diving into an issue that continues to polarize the country, Gov. Rick Scott signed into law a requirement that Florida women visit a doctor and wait at least 24 hours before having an abortion.
State marriage licenses issued to gay couples last year are just as valid as those issued to their heterosexual counterparts, a Pulaski County circuit judge ruled Tuesday as Arkansas waits for a higher court to decide the question of whether same-sex couples have a right to marry.
Democrats who control the New Jersey Legislature say they are planning a new budget that still makes a full pension-fund payment that's no longer required by law, setting up another showdown with Gov. Chris Christie.
The New York City Council approved a new package of disability pension benefits on Wednesday for police officers and firefighters in what union representatives and some council members described as a surreptitious process.
Red-state Kentucky’s broad embrace of Obamacare has been a comforting success story for the White House. But now the Affordable Care Act is the central issue in the state’s off-year governor’s race, and a Republican victory could be a portent for 2016, when GOP presidential contenders will run on a renewed vow to repeal the act.
Nine of 10 Democratic-sponsored bills vetoed by Gov. Paul LePage triggered lopsided rebukes of the governor in both the House and Senate.
Gov. Bill Haslam ceremonially signed the Individualized Education Act on Wednesday in Nashville, allowing the families of children with special needs additional educational options.
The death penalty process is too wasteful and expensive to justify any longer.
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell said the administration will work with states to help mitigate the consequences for consumers if the Supreme Court ruled against federal subsidies.
Governments and vendors can learn a lot from each other. The procurement process ought to start long before the RFPs are issued.
Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Chicago are among a host of places attempting to process data within the same framework as water or any other natural resource — and it seems to be working.
Between 2002 and 2012, of the 29 inmates who escaped from New York state prisons, none of the escapees lasted longer than three days before being recaptured,
Miami-Dade County school district announced Wednesday that Alberto Iber had been removed as principal after going online to defend Texas cop who waved a gun at black teens while responding to a call about an unruly pool party.
Vermont state Rep. Chris Pearson, a Progressive, on the impact of Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin abandoning his quest to enact a single-payer health care system. Shumlin announced earlier this week that he won't run for re-election.
On July 1 Jay Shue will leave office the office he created.
Former Gov. Deval Patrick's administration secretly diverted $27 million in public funding to skirt the state Legislature and evade state budget cutbacks during the recession.
The state is issuing a first-of-its-kind anonymous “engagement survey” to measure how much employees care about their work and how connected they feel to what they do.
The highest-charging U.S. hospitals are for-profits institutions concentrated in Florida.
To Gov. Greg Abbott, signing a sweeping, multimillion-dollar border security bill hundreds of miles from the Rio Grande made sense.
Gov. David Ige on Monday signed into law four energy bills, including one that strengthens Hawaii's commitment to clean energy by directing the state's utilities to generate 100 percent of their electricity sales from renewable energy resources by 2045.
Gov. Peter Shumlin's surprise announcement that he won't seek a fourth term opens a Vermont gubernatorial field that could turn into "a bit of a circus," in the words of one potential candidate.
Virginia’s top Republican easily withstood a tea-party primary challenge Tuesday, signaling that a deeply fractured state GOP may be finding its footing at a crucial time when national Republicans are preparing for the 2016 presidential race.
The likelihood of Ferguson Mayor James Knowles III being ousted just got a lot smaller.
A federal appeals court has turned down legal challenges filed by Murray Energy and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey over the Obama administration's proposed rule to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
The police officer whose aggressive response to an unruly teenage pool party ignited a national controversy resigned Tuesday, leaving critics relieved and supporters disappointed that an officer they considered a hero had been forced out.
States and localities are embracing the promise of big data. But just how good is the information they’re collecting in the first place?
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the state can require abortion clinics to meet costly ambulatory surgical center standards,
Amount Nebraska, which just became the first conservative state to ban the death penalty in decades, spent to import illegal execution drugs from India. The state bought enough to carry out more than 300 executions but only has 10 inmates on death row.
The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that public workers do not have a legally enforceable contract to greater pension funding, handing Gov. Christie a significant victory in a yearlong battle with public-sector unions.
5-year-old Bobby Tufts, who recently lost his bid for a third term as mayor of Dorset, Minn., to 16-year-old Eric Mueller. Dorset has no formal city government, and people pay $1 per vote in the "election" with all proceeds going toward the annual Taste of Dorset Festival.
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