After all, six months have passed since the Legislature outrageously voted to exempt itself from the state’s Public Records Act. That provoked an outcry from citizens that led to a veto from the ...

Last month, a Missouri state circuit judge did something nearly unheard of: She punished a public official for flouting transparency laws. State Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce ruled that a Cole County ...

OLYMPIA — Speaking at a gun-rights rally this weekend in Spokane, state Rep. Matt Shea called journalists “those dirty, godless, hateful people.” Shea, a Republican from Spokane Valley, has long had a ...

WEST PALM BEACH — Before the Jupiter and Martin County day-spa raids that thrust local law-enforcement efforts against human trafficking into the national spotlight, there were cases such as Alston ...

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee — A task force that's been advising the Knox County Health Department on reopening commerce is subject to public review and scrutiny, and a county lawyer advised the Health ...