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Average increase in the price of a bottle of liquor in Virginia starting Dec. 8 in an effort to plug the state's $2.4 billion budget gap.
While Brower admits that he's not "100 percent comfortable" with his actions, he insists what he's doing is right.
Instead, the working group — which had been meeting for months — decided to submit more than a dozen different and often conflicting ideas for new regulations to the legislature, which will re-argue the issue beginning in January.
Gov. Bill Haslam is raising questions about plans by two state Senate Republicans to repeal Tennessee's controversial Common Core education standards and create a new panel to make recommendations on their replacement.
There's a small but growing number of Christians joining health care sharing ministries, in which members agree to abide by Christian lifestyle principles and contribute to each other's medical expenses.
The sheer number of kids in California who have nowhere to call home and the failure of the state's leaders to address the growing crisis place it 48th among the 50 states for dealing with children's homelessness -- ranking it just above Mississippi and Alabama.
A state House member has introduced legislation that would enact a mandatory ultrasound and waiting period for women seeking abortions, the first formally proposed restriction on abortion after this month's passage of Amendment 1.
Citing "the possibility of expanded unrest," Gov. Jay Nixon on Monday declared a state of emergency and prepared to send the Missouri National Guard to help maintain order in the St. Louis region when a grand jury decision is announced in the Michael Brown case.
In June, the state education agency revoked the charter of the Honors Academy Charter School District, Well into the new school year, all seven Honors Academy schools, which enroll a total of almost 700 students, are still open.
Climate change seems nearly impossible to solve. But simplifying the bureaucratic process for solar permitting is something that local and state governments can start doing today.
As Ebola scare dies down in the U.S., infectious disease preparations wane.
Four years ago, the Forest Service pledged to change the way the Tongass' abundant natural resources are managed, shifting the emphasis toward harvesting younger trees and supporting the growing tourism and fishery industries, which depend on the 17 million-acre expanse. A new study argues that hasn't happened.
Thomas French, assistant director for Massachusetts’ natural heritage program, on residents' fear of large cats. Winchester, Mass., sent out warnings last winter after large footprints were found in a snowbank. Biologists eventually decided they were made by a coyote or large dog.
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Former Georgia Governor Carl E. Sanders, Sr., a statesman, businessman and philanthropist, champion of education and better government, died Sunday. He was 89.
A novel unity ticket featuring independent Bill Walker and Democrat Byron Mallott has defeated Republican Gov. Sean Parnell of Alaska in an election so excruciatingly close that its outcome was not known until 10 days after the polls closed.
A Los Angeles furniture store worker who had never had health insurance enrolled in a plan for $75 a month that will cover both him and his son.
Governor Andrew Cuomo's top donors contributed six times as much to help elect Republicans to the State Senate as they did to similar efforts to help Democrats, a Capital New York analysis shows.
They stood in a crowded meeting room, arms locked at the elbows, as the tap, tap, tap of police batons grew louder.
A unit of the California Army National Guard has been ordered to mobilize for possible deployment to West Africa to support U.S. and international efforts to stem the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.
Technology-based practices adapted from the commercial world are taking social services beyond the one-size-fits-all approach.
The Oregon city is using a special fund to spark new thinking in its agencies while minimizing financial risk.
A foundation-backed "research institution without walls" is studying new strategies for tackling tough problems.
Digital tools can help colleges and universities attract the right people, keep them enrolled and engage with them after they've graduated.
Thousands of acres across the country were partially developed during the housing boom. What should happen to them now?
Many states and localities are pushing for more car alternatives as Americans reduce driving.
With potential for the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down insurance subsidies in the states that don't run their own health exchange, some are rushing to protect affordable care.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Cities and states are trying to come up with ways to combat disabled parking abuses, including stepping up enforcement and ending free parking at meters.
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