The fire at the Moss Landing plant, which stores electricity for the power grid, was unrelated to wildfires in Los Angeles.

Rockland County Legislator Aron Wieder has started his new job as a state assemblyman but plans to keep his county seat as well, with no legal barrier.

From the continued threats against the Voting Rights Act to new restrictions on mail ballots and voter registration, courts ...

Texas and Florida are growing rapidly. California, Illinois and New York are shrinking. With America’s population shifting to the South, political influence is seeping from reliably Democratic states ...

One need only glance at headlines about Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and other super-wealthy individuals to understand that wealth ...

Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota, selected by President-elect Donald J. Trump to run the Department of Homeland Security, ...

The new Chicago Board of Education was sworn in this week, marking a historic shift in oversight of the country’s ...

A USA TODAY review of almost 100 of the administration's top hires shows nearly half of states could have a representative in ...

The wealthiest cities in the U.S. are almost seven times richer than the poorest regions, a disparity that has nearly doubled ...