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Standing in a browned meadow that should have been buried in deep snow, Gov. Jerry Brown ordered California's first-ever mandatory water cutback, imposing a 25 percent reduction to force residents and businesses to significantly tighten up water use.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Tuesday had been expected to sign his state's version of legislation billed as a religious freedom measure, despite complaints that it could lead to discrimination, especially against gays and lesbians.
A jury found 11 of 12 former teachers, principals and administrators guilty of conspiring to change student answers on standardized tests.
New Orleans, Los Angeles and Albuquerque are writing their own stories to improve citizens' lives.
No one really knows what might happen to San Bernardino if the California city fails to meet a May 30 deadline in its bankruptcy case.
See recommended preparedness measures and how often they're adopted.
A new survey shows the extent to which Americans around the country have taken measures to prepare for natural disasters or other emergencies.
History shows that large-scale protests are no guarantee for change.
Government managers all appear to be speaking English, but the same words and phrases often have multiple, contradictory meanings.
Mayor Mike Duggan says emergency management hasn't improve the public school system.
How can a chronically underfunded system have room for big companies to make profits?
The popularity has craft breweries bumping up against the country's longstanding system that governs the beer industry. In many states, microbreweries can serve their beer at their locations and brewpubs, but lose that ability when they exceed production caps.
A new National Institute of Mental Health research plan could change how mental illness is diagnosed and treated.
Portion of people in Washington, D.C., who refer to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport as "National." Many in the area, especially Democrats, still refuse to call it "Reagan."
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected state Attorney General Kathleen Kane's challenge to a grand jury investigation that concluded with a recommendation that she face criminal charges.
When Chris Christie privatized New Jersey's lottery two years ago, he said its new overseers would "modernize and maximize" the games.
North Carolina’s gas tax will drop by a few pennies over the next 15 months – starting Wednesday with a reduction of 1.5 cents a gallon – under a law enacted Tuesday to ward off a larger tax cut that was expected to cost the state $800 million in transportation money over the next four years.
Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's proposed Insure Tennessee plan flopped for a second time Tuesday in a Senate committee and that's thrown the House effort into confusion with two top supporters disagreeing over whether to try to move it today in a subcommittee there.
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge on Tuesday certified the wording of a proposed initiated act that would amend the Arkansas Civil Rights Act of 1993 to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, if approved by voters.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has urged lawmakers to send a bill to his desk by the end of the week to clarify the intent of a new religious-objections law that critics fear could permit discrimination against gays and lesbians.
In a 5-4 decision, justices ruled medical providers can’t sue state Medicaid agencies over low payment rates -- a strategy doctors and patient advocates have used for decades.
Defying partisan politics, one Colorado city vows to be carbon neutral.
The Bradley Foundation is the conservative group behind the Wisconsin governor's political success.
Gov. Doug Ducey signs a law that bars women from buying healthcare plans through the federal marketplace that include abortion coverage and requires abortion providers to tell women they can reverse the effects of a drug-induced abortion.
A bill amending the state budget unveiled in the session's final hours authorized the transfer from the health insurance fund to government's "rainy day" fund where it will allow the state to pay for appropriations made this session.
Gov. Doug Ducey vetoed a bill Monday the would have kept the names of policemen in serious or deadly shootings from the public.
Meteorologist Brian Brettschneider, who produced a list of America's dreariest cities using a formula that takes into account annual precipitation, number of days with precipitation and cloudiness. Buffalo, Seattle, Portland, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Cincinnati top the list.
From "houselets" to "regional play days," the Knight Foundation is giving $5 million to people or organizations around the country with new ideas to improve cities.
Alan Doubleday, chief of the Prince George's County, Md., Fire Department, which has been using an abandoned mall for training exercises before the building gets razed later this year.
States searching for drugs to use in executions by lethal injection may soon find another door slammed in their face, this time by the pharmacists who are the last-ditch source for execution drugs.
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