BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Boulder's Daily Camera newspaper is seeking a review of a district court ruling that found that University of Colorado regents could refuse to disclose the names and...

GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — Officials in Weld County plan to promote personal responsibility to stop the spread of COVID-19 now that Colorado has given counties the power to make decisions on public...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is asking President Joe Biden to approve a major disaster declaration to help local governments and nonprofit groups recover costs from responding to winter...

DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Court of Appeals has turned aside the latest challenge to a state law that forces criminal defendants to pay millions of dollars a year to partially cover the costs of...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Legislature passed a bill Thursday that allows the state to withhold funding to cities that fail to protect public monuments and memorials from vandalism, part of...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Local governments that want to get a boost in property tax revenue would have to send postcards to notify all of their taxpayers and hold a standalone public hearing where...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s Republican-led Senate endorsed a measure Wednesday that would prohibit the state from mandating face coverings.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana official plans to ask his local government join efforts to make daylight saving time last all year.

Rowdy Gaudet is a member of the governing council for...

LOUISVILLE, Ky (AP) — The Appalachian Regional Commission is awarding $9.4 million in grants to 30 projects in a dozen states. The grants will aid programs that address Appalachia’s substance...

ATLANTA (AP) — A bill that would have required new Georgia drivers to receive training on how to interact with law enforcement as part of driver education courses failed to gain enough support to...

PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican-controlled Arizona Senate voted Monday to rescind its mandatory mask policy and the House speaker made the same move on his own authority.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana's House Appropriations Committee has moved forward with a bill to allocate about $2 billion in federal stimulus money, including financial penalties for local...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday that he would issue an executive order forbidding local governments and businesses from requiring so-called “vaccine passports” to...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Republican leaders in Maine want to curb the governor's office from exercising as broad emergency powers as Gov. Janet Mills has during the coronavirus...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The next time you're in a blinding snowstorm but can clearly see the traffic signal ahead, thank the producers of “The Coolest Thing Made in Illinois.”

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The Flagstaff City Council is casting a critical eye on Gov. Doug Ducey's executive order barring local governments from enforcing mask-wearing mandates to reduce the...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — As Montana lawmakers decide how to allocate millions of dollars in American Rescue Plan Act money, some Republicans are looking at ways to reduce the federal stimulus funds...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska had 22,300 fewer jobs last month than it did in February 2020, the state labor department reported Friday, citing an ongoing economic toll from the COVID-19...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina state agencies, local governments and school boards would be required to release reasons why employees got fired or demoted in legislation filed on Thursday in...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A bill that would let Nebraska's larger cities create port authorities along rivers, major rail lines and interstates won first round-approval Wednesday from lawmakers as a...

DENVER (AP) — Boulder has been blocked from enforcing its 2-year-old ban on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines in the city — potentially providing the state Supreme Court an opportunity...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen Joe Manchin told West Virginia officials the new federal stimulus package will include $677 million in funding to local governments in the...

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot warned the city’s aldermen on Wednesday not to produce wish lists now that Congress has passed a COVID-19 relief package that will send nearly $2...

JACKSON, Ky. (AP) — An eastern Kentucky organization will receive more than $300,000 to renovate a historic site to promote tourism, Gov. Andy Beshear said.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's government is forecast to eventually receive about $2.4 billion from the latest round of federal pandemic relief, the state budget director told lawmakers...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday issued a major disaster declaration for Louisiana because of last month's icy weather, a move that frees up federal recovery assistance for...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill that would make online payments for state or local government services available throughout West Virginia has received final legislative approval.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Twelve Kentucky communities will split nearly $700,000 to improve access to recreational trails, Gov. Andy Beshear said.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin court has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Foxconn Technology Group violated terms of its contract by failing to build a manufacturing plant in southeast...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — State, county and city governments in Pennsylvania will receive about $13 billion from the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package making its way through Congress, a huge sum...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A year after Missouri confirmed its first COVID-19 infection, local governments on Monday continued to relax coronavirus restrictions as the number of cases in the state declines...

NEW YORK (AP) — Fresh off the Senate’s passage of a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was back in New York on Sunday to promote what he said would be the...