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Allies of former Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday rolled out a Super PAC that can raise unlimited amounts of money to boost the likely 2016 presidential candidate.
Unions representing New Jersey state troopers are the first to sue Gov. Chris Christie over pension payment proposals contained in his latest budget address.
New Jersey announced Thursday that it has settled an environmental damage claim against Exxon Mobil Corp. for $225 million, $25 million less than originally reported last week and far less than the $8.9 billion it had originally sought.
What started as groupware in the business world is providing better ways for governments to collaborate with citizens.
It's a matter not only of discipline but of a culture of collective morality.
In many ways, its challenges are more serious than Detroit's, threatening its aspirations to be a global city.
Policemen say the legalization forces them to decide whether to violate the Colorado Constitution or the U.S. Constitution.
Currently, the tax bill for a house assessed at $113,000 is $1,112. If Nutter's proposal is approved, it would go up to $1,216.
Paul LePage vows to spend the "rest of my days" fighting opponents of his plan to cut income taxes and hike sales taxes.
Gov. John Kasich's tax plan takes fire from both the left and right.
The U.S. Supreme Court sided with a freight railroad in its efforts to avoid paying sales tax on diesel fuel, but the legal challenge isn't over yet.
Amount of additional snow that would need to fall on the city of Boston this season to beat its record of 107.6 inches.
Writer Joshua Alston, on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's recent attempt to fix an Internet faux pas. After tweeting a minor plot spoiler from "House of Cards" last week, the agency apologized for not warning users of the spoiler alert.
When the 1951 flood swept through north Topeka, the business district never quite recovered.
The Cleveland Police Department got its third leader in four days Wednesday after Tennessee's police regulatory agency told City Manager Janice Casteel she couldn't serve in that position.
Chicago is the latest example of the many local and state governments that are haunted by interest rate swap agreements they made before the Great Recession.
It was reasonable for police Officer Darren Wilson to be afraid of Michael Brown in their encounter last summer, a Justice Department investigation concluded, and thus he cannot be prosecuted for fatally shooting the unarmed 18-year-old.
Supreme Court justices raised tough questions Monday about Arizona's use of an independent commission to draw legislative maps, in a case crucial for political operators and reformers in California and beyond.
Florida's congressional redistricting maps should be rejected because they are the product of a shadowy process infiltrated by Republican political operatives in violation of the law against partisan gerrymandering, lawyers argued before the Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday.
New York will become the nation’s first major metropolis to close its public schools in observance of the two most sacred Muslim holy days, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday, a watershed moment for a group that has endured suspicion and hostility since the Sept. 11 attacks.
The Supreme Court justice's view could open a revisitation of question about web sales taxes.
A Census report explores demographic shifts set to take place.
East Coast cities are expected to experience more hurricanes and more blackouts in the coming years.
The legislative proposal Greg Abbott favors has attracted mixed reactions from early education advocates, who hope it can be strengthened. The plan as it stands will barely change the status quo.
Some scientists and government officials fear that a solar superstorm or a nuclear detonation could disable the electric grid. That has prompted legislators to sponsor grid-protection measures.
Many states have them, but few evaluate whether efficiency commissions are themselves efficient.
Rahm Emanuel's dilemma echoes that of Hillary Clinton, widely expected to run for the Democratic presidential nomination: how much should progressives matter in the party?
Some about two dozen American law enforcement agencies are under investigation by the Justice Department.
In U.S. Supreme Court arguments, a justice many view as a deciding vote questioned the Obama administration's case for the health law as well as the constitutionality of the challengers'.
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