Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan died Friday morning at 91, more than two decades after leaving office for the last time and ...

House File 887 will exempt freestanding birth centers from needing to obtain a certificate of need from the Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals and Licensing.

House Democrats are privately grousing about their party's inability to hold down committee leaders — due not just to ...

Santa Cruz enacts a new soda tax, defying a 2018 statewide ban. The tax, effective Thursday, charges 2 cents per ounce on ...

Assemblymember Catherine Stefani, a San Francisco Democrat, is carrying the legislation, Assembly Bill 569, which would ...

Thirteen years ago, a minor political miracle occurred in California’s Capitol. A Democrat-dominated Legislature passed and a Democratic governor, Jerry Brown, signed a significant overhaul of ...

Santa Cruz's tax on sugary beverages went into effect Thursday, seven years after a California bill banned local governments ...

Maintaining the PEPRA reforms is part of the state’s best hope for fully funding public pension benefits and eliminating debt ...

Any attempt to confront the waste, enforce accountability and reverse runaway incompetence and alarming malfeasance has to be ...

Governor deserves credit for creating long-needed system to track state educational outcomes from cradle to career ...

Sacramento may pass a bill to end-run Jerry Brown’s 2012 reform.