How to find a bargain and avoid sales tax in this state: Visit shops, talk with sales clerks, decide on a desired model. Then, drive home, log onto the Internet, find the product from an out-of-state vendor and add to cart.

SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger attempted to forge a path out of the state's financial mess Wednesday by offering concessions to both Democrats, who are demanding that schools and other services not be cut, and Republicans disdainful of new taxes.

Kansas Supreme Court justices lost little time Wednesday getting to the key question about the state?s new gambling law: Would the casinos really be owned and operated by the state?

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The defense attorney for convicted former Wasilla Rep. Vic Kohring is withdrawing his representation.

Severe storms and flooding this spring have caused at least $27 million in damage to Arkansas infrastructure alone, according to a federal estimate provided to Gov. Mike Beebe's office Wednesday.

Gov. Janet Napolitano is defending an agreement she made with home builders to take them off the financial hook for new road construction in exchange for a campaign contribution to the cause and a separate political deal.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to use money from an expanded lottery to plug a big state budget hole is not looking like a winning ticket.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger may have backed off a worst-case scenario for public education in a new budget proposal, but administrators say his plan still could leave classrooms shorthanded.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Wednesday defended his plans to borrow against future profits from the state lottery to help close a $15.2 billion budget deficit, arguing that the state's fiscal crisis is so deep that cutting spending alone is not a viable option.

Gas costs more. So does food. Health insurance? Same thing ? unless you get it through one of the California Public Employees' Retirement System's preferred provider organizations. A key CalPERS committee on Wednesday recommended that the massive pension and health fund not raise the cost of PPO premiums for state workers in 2009.