Federal workers who are required to work during the partial government shutdown but are failing to do so risk being classified as absent without leave.
The commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard late Tuesday blasted the partial government shutdown and said it’s “unacceptable” that service members continue to work without pay.
The San Francisco 49ers will receive a $36 million refund from Santa Clara County after getting the tax on Levi's Stadium cut in half.
One of Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka's main sponsors has taken down an online ad campaign that depicts her with pale skin after it was criticized as insensitive.
The Phoenix City Council on Wednesday night approved a $230 million renovation plan for their downtown arena that will keep the NBA's Phoenix Suns in the city until at least 2037 with an option to extend it to 2042.
The Latest on Alaska's Marijuana Control Board (all times local):
Former independent counsel Kenneth Starr, who spearheaded the 1990s investigation into President Bill Clinton, urged public trust in the checks and balances established for holding presidential administrations accountable, saying Wednesday that the system remains widely underappreciated.
The Latest on South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster's State of the State speech (all times local):
A Colorado-based coal company going through bankruptcy proceedings has asked for permission to sell its mine in southwestern Wyoming.
A Democrat and Republican in Michigan's congressional delegation are proposing legislation to let states provide unemployment benefits to federal employees working without pay during the partial government shutdown.
The text of South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster's 2019 State of the State address as prepared.
Summary of recent Kentucky newspaper editorials:
A De Pere businessman was sentenced Wednesday to more than seven years in prison for defrauding the state's economic development agency and other investors out of more than $9 million.
On a split vote, a legislative committee has approved a bill to halt the construction of power plants that use fossil fuels and pipelines that carry such fuels after 2020 and to develop a plan for Virginia to rely totally on renewable energy for generating electricity by 2036.
Recent editorials from Georgia newspapers:
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
A Colorado town has extended its moratorium on new oil and gas drilling, expecting lawmakers to address statewide regulations this year.
Recent editorials from Tennessee newspapers:
A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit over the arrest of two Colorado residents in 2013 during a protest at a coal company's shareholder meeting in Wyoming.
Long-sought coastal protection projects stretching across south Louisiana will share in $300 million the state is expected to receive over the next three years from offshore oil and gas drilling income, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Wednesday.
Recent editorials from Mississippi newspapers:
Mississippi's Medicaid director said Wednesday that the program will not seek additional money for the final half of the state budget year. This is the first time that has happened in the past five years.
