Citing concerns about affordability, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has proposed revising the state’s 2019 climate law, asking to delay regulations to implement it and to adopt a different greenhouse-gas accounting method.
California’s energy regulator is keeping a close watch on the state’s gasoline market for potential price gouging as the Iran war spikes oil and fuel costs around the globe.
Residents exiting Massachusetts took a net of $4.2 billion in adjusted gross income with them in 2023, one of the largest totals in the country, after a tax on millionaires took effect.
The effects of menopause in the workplace have grabbed state lawmakers’ attention in the absence of clear federal policy, spurring proposals across the country to strengthen job protections and treatment access.
Democratic-led states are facing heightened pressure from the Trump administration over allegations of sweeping Medicaid fraud, a tactic that threatens to expand and test the bounds of federal and state collaboration on addressing the issue.
A federal judge on Thursday stopped US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from curbing access to gender-affirming care for minors, blocking a declaration from the administration that said the treatments are “neither safe nor effective” for addressing gender dysphoria.
Massachusetts lawmakers would decouple from corporate provisions of the GOP federal tax law if voters approve a personal income tax cut in November, according to a budget initiative moving through the Democrat-controlled legislature.
More than 20 states are legally challenging the
New Jersey can ban people 20-and-under from possessing firearms because such a restriction passes constitutional scrutiny, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.
Democrat Derek Tran won the Nov. 5 election in California’s 45th Congressional District over Rep. Michelle Steel (R), who conceded Wednesday.
Republican Nick Begich unseated Rep. Mary Peltola (D) in Alaska’s at-large Congressional District, the Associated Press said Wednesday.
Democrat Janelle Bynum unseated Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer in Oregon’s 5th District, the Associated Press said Thursday.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) asked a federal court to prevent special counsel Jack Smith from destroying documents related to his investigation and prosecution of president-elect Donald Trump.
The idea of injecting more politics into filling state supreme court seats through partisan elections has taken hold in some Republican circles, and momentum could pick up after the party’s success this week in North Carolina and Ohio.
A convicted felon in New York may help determine whether Republicans hold all the levers of government in Washington next year.
