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A new report indicates that although California will grow hotter with global warming _ turning more mountain snow to rain _ most of the state will not be appreciably worse off.
Mayor Ed Murray says he wants to shut down businesses that delivery marijuana to customers.
An annual report shows Washington, D.C., led the nation this year in increases in emergency food assistance requests and homelessness. See how your city compares.
Will Congress be swayed by the entry of a Chinese e-commerce competitor?
Washington, D.C., activist Adam Eidinger, who led the effort to put marijuana legalization on this year's ballot. The measure passed, but a paragraph in Congress' $1.1 trillion spending bill would effectively prohibit the city from instituting the new law.
Brian Jorg, manager of the native plant program at the Cincinnati Zoo, where squirrels are destroying the institution's 2-million bulb holiday light display by chewing through the wires.
Governments must ask themselves critical questions before change can happen.
Now Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is warning insurance companies that they will no longer be allowed to deny gender reassignment surgery or other treatment to change a person’s gender, like hormone therapy, if a doctor has deemed that treatment medically necessary.
Backers of Oregon's Measure 92 to require labeling of genetically altered foods filed a lawsuit Monday claiming that the failure to count about 4,600 ballots disenfranchised voters.
With Detroit officially out of bankruptcy, now-former emergency manager Kevyn Orr said it's not the next couple of years he's worried about for the city, or even five years out.
Trustees of New Jersey's largest pension funds filed a lawsuit today against Gov. Chris Christie for slashing $2.4 billion in pension fund payments he promised to pay as part of a 2011 pension reform deal.
Amid the nationwide tumult over recent instances of police officers using deadly force against unarmed people, Bay Area cities like Berkeley and Oakland have been rived by impassioned protests that have at times turned violent.
Declaring early childhood education "one of the best investments we can make," President Barack Obama on Wednesday followed up on a promise to expand early education opportunities for tens of thousands of children by announcing $1 billion in public-private spending on programs for young learners.
The heads of Live Oak Brewing in Austin, Peticolas Brewing Company in Dallas and Revolver Brewing in Granbury, say Senate Bill 639 is unconstitutional.
All states have a stake in how trillions in federal dollars are spent, but it matters more to some states than to others.
A new report highlights just how bad things are, but some proposed federal rules are a step in the right direction.
A look back at the longtime Washington, D.C. mayor's battles with Congress.
While the latest weather should be good news for a state starved for water, experts say that one storm will just not offer enough rain relief.
Marc Kilmer, senior fellow at the Maryland Public Policy Institute, on New York's cigarette tax, which is the highest in the nation. New York has suffered a huge loss of tax revenue and is dealing with a complicated, and potentially dangerous, black market in tobacco sales.
Number of New York City police officers wearing body cameras as part of a pilot program started this fall.
Commentator reacting to "The Rocksy," a proposed name for the Montgomery County, Md., neighborhood generally known as White Flint. After much work to rebrand the area, the White Flint Downtown Advisory Committee unanimously approved calling the neighborhood "Pike District."
Portion of Vermonters who say they consider religion important and regularly attend religious services. Vermont is the least religious state in the country.
A Tallahassee judge opened the door Monday for a new complaint against Gov. Rick Scott that alleges the governor intentionally withheld public records in violation of state law.
State lawmakers have launched a nationwide non-partisan coalition to combat gun violence, in part because the Congress has failed to reform gun laws, members of the group said on Monday.
Faced with a series of scandals that have roiled the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to create a civilian oversight system to provide greater accountability for the agency.
Gov. Rick Snyder has signed off on ending Detroit's emergency status, signaling the end of the city's financial crisis and positioning it to officially come out of bankruptcy as early as this week.
Los Angeles and San Francisco district attorneys filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Uber on Tuesday, alleging that the popular ride-hailing company misleads consumers about the service's safety, overcharges them and thumbs its nose at the law.
The District will be prohibited from legalizing marijuana for the much of the coming year under a spending deal reached Tuesday between top Senate Democrats and House Republicans to fund the federal government through next September.
According to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services investigation, many doctors listed as serving low-income patients either can't offer appointments at all or have months-long wait times.
Statistics on car-free households and numbers of vehicles per household for cities.
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