A 53-page report details the bureaucratic dysfunction that allowed the Ohio county to pay for a jail management system it never used due to a signing bonus fixation, lack of planning and poor ...

Lenin Romero was framing windows on a home in Wilmington, N.C., when he fell from a ladder and was impaled by a steel rod. If a $2.30 safety cap had been placed over the rod, it likely would have ...

Bill author state Rep. Dodie Horton argued that the Ten Commandments are the “basis of all laws in Louisiana” and the legislation honors the country’s religious origins. The bill must be signed by the ...

The state House Education Committee unanimously approved a measure on Tuesday that would bar protests by any organization funded by a foreign adversary. It would also prohibit professors from imposing ...

Supplementing early childhood educators’ wages has gone a long way toward addressing a longtime crisis. Even if the program ...

On Wednesday, senators rejected efforts to roll back guidance from the Treasury Department regarding how state and local ...

In multiple states, voters will decide whether to reject justices who upheld abortion bans and restrictions. Separately, many ...

Colorado is the latest state to take a big swing at housing policy, with half a dozen housing-related bills approved by the ...

Construction workers at the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state. The dam was built, beginning in the 1930s, under project ...

State agencies are trying to address technical shortcomings that led to as much as $135 billion in fraud during the pandemic.

A 6-year plunge in federal funding that aids victims of sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse is causing alarm ...

Although it’s not unusual for voter rolls to fluctuate, local election officials want residents to know that anyone who ...