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The Black Forest Fire near Colorado Springs, Colo., has pushed about 4,500 evacuees out of their homes. Police are escorting some of them back in to pick up critical medications or rescue pets.

Judge found fault with often-used legislative shortcuts

North Carolina state Rep. Tricia Cotham announced she was switching affiliation on Wednesday — a move that gives the Republicans a veto-proof majority in the state.

The Trump administration is intensifying its conflict with cities that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. Republicans in Congress are adding to the pressure. Friday is the deadline for sanctuary cities to respond to the Department of Justice.

On Monday, the City of Phoenix is in court to prove it's making progress in clearing its largest homeless encampment. Heat-related deaths in Phoenix continue to rise, and many victims are homeless.

Community groups getting federal funds to reduce hospital readmissions made little improvement, an early evaluation finds. The experiment will run for five years.

Journalist Ted Genoways spent a year on a small farm in rural Nebraska, and he says American nostalgia for the family farm overlooks the pressures farmers face and the realities of food production.

Public defenders say they're being assigned too many cases to do their jobs effectively. The question of whether judges can force them to take on more cases is before the state's Supreme Court.

Law enforcement officers in Illinois cannot rely on the smell of burnt cannabis alone to justify searching a vehicle without a warrant, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

Arizona's Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday on whether abortions should be allowed up to 15 weeks after conception, or be almost totally banned under an 1864 law.