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Vermont Yankee nuclear power station moves to full retirement amid growing competition from cheap natural gas.
Developers say the future of what was once an industrial hub is finally under way, with half-a-dozen downtown residential developments having received financing, broken ground or been completed in the New Jersey city in the past year.
The Arizona senator’s team has been ridding the state’s GOP apparatus of his tea party foes.
The bill would have offered a two-year “safety net” to teachers and principals who were given one of the two lowest ratings on the state’s new evaluation system. But Cuomo indicated he wanted to make the teacher evaluation system more rigorous.
Prosecutors have found that one law firm has made substantial payments to the State Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, over roughly a decade, but that he did not list that income on his annual financial disclosure forms, as required.
The success of the state's health plan comes with new obstacles.
Prices have surged after heavy snowfalls last winter depleted salt reserves.
Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo rejected legislation passed in their states and instead threw their support behind a string of reforms to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey proposed by a bi-state panel.
Some responded negatively to New York City's mayor at an event inside Madison Square Garden to honor 884 cadets who were graduating from the New York Police Department’s academy.
After more than a decade writing about the states, Louis Jacobson reflects on what he has discovered.
Scandal tarnished the master of constituent services. Over 16 years, Graham reshaped Ward 1. Did anyone notice?
In North Dakota, a tale of oil, corruption and death.
The parents of Antonio Martin say his fatal shooting "doesn't make any sense."
The city is unsettled by a massive drill tunneling through downtown.
In dozens of cases people convicted and later cleared by DNA or new evidence never received state compensation. Some never even file a claim because they can't afford a lawyer or find one willing to take the case.
With the nation's share of Asians and Hispanics expected to double in 40 years, the changes these rising minority groups are making to politics and society are only beginning.
The price of oil has dropped by 40 percent over the past few months. Most oil states have money saved in permanent funds, but the drop in revenues is causing shortfalls already.
Exercises such as "active-shooter" drills can expose people to unnecessary trauma. We shouldn't forget about the need to shield the innocent from fear.
For the city's first director of sustainability, it's one tree at a time.
How the Deep South is trying to game the Republican primary.
In a state with no income tax, the revenues from luxury homes fund infrastructure to keep the sea at bay.
Bill de Blasio called for a suspension of the demonstrations and asked the public to report any possible threats against police officers.
A federal judge ruled that the use of the sedative midazolam did not amount to an experiment on human subjects.
From state health exchanges to specialty drugs and the collapse of Vermont's single-payer initiative.
Officials in many of the counties hoped to lease mineral rights beneath county roads and rights of way to energy companies. But a 54-year-old opinion from the attorney general’s office gives leasing rights, and the revenue, to the state.
What the state can teach the rest of the country.
Portland, Maine, is ignoring state instructions that could discourage people from seeking shelter beds.
New York City and Asheville, N.C., have both adopted private clouds to provide disaster recovery services, with promising results.
So far there is no evidence of any spontaneous activity on the former Florida governor's behalf in the New England state.
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