Ecuador’s parliament has passed a law allowing private companies to help manage protected areas, prompting backlash from ...

Officials raised concerns Thursday about how a federal funding freeze could affect school-related programs in South Florida — with the expected loss of tens of millions of dollars this upcoming ...

Eight months after voters approved it, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed the repeal of a law Thursday that had guaranteed paid sick leave to workers ...

The reversal reflected a growing struggle over the use of ballot measures to answer policy questions in Republican-led states ...

As we previously reported, in November 2024, Alaska voters approved a paid sick leave ballot initiative that called for a statewide paid sick leave law to go into effect July 1, 2025. As of ...

Jun. 30—The minimum wage in Alaska will rise to $13 and the state's first sick leave requirement will be enacted Tuesday when Ballot Measure 1 goes into effect. Though many Alaska businesses ...

New provisions that benefit whaling captains and rural hospitals appear to be aimed at winning over Senator Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska Republican who had said the bill would hurt her state.

Missouri’s paid sick leave law, effective May 1, 2025, will be repealed August 28 under HB 567. Employers must comply until then but may revoke unused leave ...