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Some states are requiring officials to undergo open government training to improve accountability and reduce public records lawsuits.
Through the years, justices have tried to determine whether Scott Panetti can understand that he has been sentenced to die and why.
First, it was not a strip club. It was an erotic club. And, second, what can I say? I’m a night owl.
Former Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry, when asked about his evening activities several years ago.
Miami-Dade must reapprove the budget and tax rate after Florida finds that the county messed up a single number in a newspaper advertisement in mid-September detailing its proposed taxes.
Despite GOP success, the New Jersey governor still doesn't have much support among fellow Republicans.
The warmer temperatures and half-an-inch of rain could mean intense flooding for the beleaguered region.
After an unusual land deal, a giant spill and a tanker-train explosion, anxiety began to ripple across the state.
The ski industry, which expects higher temperatures, less snow and shorter seasons in the coming decades, is seen a bit like the canary in the coal mine of climatology.
A weekend when many had expected a decision by the grand jury became instead a weekend of uncertainty, with no word from the courthouse and confusion over how individuals and institutions should respond.
Some schools are improving grades by ramping up "blended-learning" programs
Former NYC mayor: "White police officers wouldn’t be there if you weren’t killing each other."
As enrollment expands dramatically under the Affordable Care Act, the states' aging technology systems are under increasing pressure. There's a way to give them new life.
See which states are adding more jobs and those that lag behind.
Hawaii learned a few lessons from its efforts to "gamify" government. Government work is serious business – but maybe it doesn't have to be a no-fun, no-thrill zone for consumers.
Transit advocates say the commuter parking benefit increases congestion and disproportionately benefits wealthy workers. But getting rid of it won't be easy.
Tech leaders say presidential orders on immigration cannot address the problems that trouble technology companies most: tight limits on temporary visas for high-skilled workers, and a cumbersome system for achieving "green card" permanent resident status that causes too many workers to give up and go back home.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Since 2004, nine U.S. Catholic dioceses have filed for bankruptcy court protection as part of the clergy sexual abuse crisis that now threatens the finances of the Twin Cities archdiocese.
Despite South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson's efforts, from Columbia to Charleston, couples lined up at probate courts to obtain the licenses.
Ju Hong disrupted the president's West Coast immigration speech last year. It seems it might have worked.
Estimated number of Puerto Ricans who retire to the mainland United States each year.
The Obama administration overstated 2014 enrollment in health insurance plans purchased through the Affordable Care Act by more than 5 percent, officials acknowledged Thursday after the error was discovered by a congressional oversight committee.
As state regulators fret about how President Obama’s effort to combat climate change would affect the Texas power grid, a new study says the rules would be simpler to adopt than those regulators suggest – and that it would save the state billions of gallons of water annually.
Legislators plan to meet the day after Thanksgiving for a final update from the Parnell administration on the proposed natural gas pipeline. But they won't be allowed to attend unless they sign a secrecy pledge.
President Obama’s action to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation and grant them work permits opens a new front in the decades-long debate over the scope of presidential authority.
Texas Gov.-elect Greg Abbott didn’t mince words while reacting to President Obama’s executive action that grants amnesty to roughly 5 million illegals, saying simply in a tweeted message: I’m going to sue.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has frequently butted heads with the federal government over the treatment of undocumented immigrants in Arizona, said Thursday that he was suing President Obama over Obama's recently unveiled immigration reform order.
The boosters behind Boston's competition to host the 2024 summer games are promising a transparent process, but there's little sign of it yet.
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