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A Republican-led effort in the state Senate to assert parents' authority to dictate what their minor children learn in school and determine health care they receive won preliminary approval Wednesday after a spirited debate.
In a temporary victory for opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline, a Nebraska state judge sided with landowners seeking to stop Canadian energy firm TransCanada from taking land from dozens of properties in the northern half of the state.
Looking for a greater voice for his state — and an advantage for his own likely campaign — Sen. Rand Paul is asking the Republican Party of Kentucky to create a presidential caucus in 2016 that would go earlier than its May primary.
The Southwest, including California, along with the Great Plains states, will endure long-lasting “megadroughts” in the second half of this century, worse by far than anything seen in the past 1,000 years, a team of climate experts said Thursday.
The governor of Oregon ordered his secretary of state, Kate Brown, to come back to Oregon, but then didn't resign and asked her why she returned early.
Lawmakers in both states have reignited a century-old feud over the well-accepted claim that the Wright brothers were the "first in flight."
Moments after a federal judge ruled Thursday that gay marriage licenses must be issued, Robert Povilat and his husband-to-be, Milton Persinger, were proudly the first in line at the Mobile County Probate Court and started filling out their paperwork.
The city edged out Columbus, Ohio, and New York City.
Oregon Gov. Kitzhaber, who's now resigning, is just the latest politician in a controversy involving his significant other -- a phenomenon some say will grow in the era of dual-career households.
An order by Illinois' new governor threatens the delicate balance between the interests of workers and taxpayers.
The lieutenant governor and former San Francisco mayor will open a campaign account in preparation for the governor's race in 2018.
Gov. Doug Ducey says abortion opponents need to get involved with the have 16,900 children that wards of the state.
Gov. Tom Wolfe has visited the offices of about 50 lawmakers and plans to continue his rounds as well as invite all lawmakers to the governor's mansion a mile from the Capitol.
Legislators unveiled a 30-year plan Tuesday that they said could be covered by borrowing money through general obligation bonds, avoiding tolls or tax increases.
Amount lawyers have billed North Carolina for their efforts to appeal federal court rulings that have legalized gay marriage in the state.
A nonprofit founded by mayors is helping seven cities finance and organize community service projects to revitalize low-income urban neighborhoods.
The education community scored a victory Wednesday when state lawmakers in the House killed a measure that would have eliminated the Common Core math and English standards used to guide teaching.
Gov. Tom Wolf toured an elementary school on Wednesday morning where students were writing about love for Valentine's Day. Then the new governor proposed to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for education with a 5 percent natural gas extraction tax that has not earned him much affection from the drilling industry.
A rookie cop who shot and killed an unarmed man in a Brooklyn housing project stairwell was indicted Tuesday on criminal charges stemming from the case, which fueled protests over policing tactics.
Gov. John Kitzhaber decided to resign Tuesday but then changed his mind, insisting Wednesday afternoon that he's staying, The Oregonian/OregonLive has learned.
MBTA General Manager Beverly Scott jetted off at taxpayer expense nearly every month during her two-plus-year tenure -- sometimes several times a month -- to conferences and meetings around the country, even as the troubled transit system was collapsing around her, a Herald review shows.
As Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker showed on Wednesday, the theory of evolution continues to trip up presidential aspirants. Over the past few election cycles, Democratic candidates often voiced their unabashed support of Darwin's scientific breakthrough, while Republicans offered up views ranging from outright denial to complex hedging to less than full-throated support.
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, a possible presidential contender, wants more states to adopt a new measurement tool called "net present value plus."
The original champions of change might move on, but their ideas don't have to leave with them.
L.A. city and county officials formed a task force formed last fall after President Barack Obama announced the expansion of his deferred action program.
Employed white Southerners are most likely to lose coverage if the court rules against the Obama administration.
Executive Assistant to the Chief of Staff, Office of Gov. John Hickenlooper, Colorado
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