The aim of this day is to urge local action and increase awareness about the state of the world's environment.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Local party leaders did not. As one said: "I do not want him raising hell in my state any longer."

VOA: special.2010.08.05

In recent years there has been a strong push for local and state governments to ban public smoking.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

People across the state will work together on one hundred twenty-five local projects to clean trash, remove invasive plants and improve water areas.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

The Government Accountability Office reports that state and local governments have received twenty-nine billion dollars so far.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

After the storm, recovery and aid efforts by local, state and federal agents were not well organized.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

In fact, the program has won the support of his local representative in the state legislature.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Goals for what public schools should teach are set by state and local school boards.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

Researcher Laurence Becker of Oregon State University said some local farmers stopped farming.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

Lincoln succeeded in gaining the support of state and local political leaders.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

Since the federal law was passed a decade ago, many state and local communities have followed suit.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

Effectively,the state would say if you build it, the local utility must buy the juice.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

Monday's ruling said that right applies also to state and local gun control laws.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Gun activists are hoping to use that five to four ruling by the Supreme Court to challenge local and state gun control laws around the country.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Meeting with residents and business owners, and accompanied by state and local officials, the president spent the day visiting oil spill response and coordination centers in Mississippi and Alabama.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

"One of the things we found consistently in the academic literature and elsewhere was that the first responders, state and local law enforcement, did not recognize the signs of human trafficking."

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

The high court ruling says the right to have a handgun for self defense is a fundamental right under the Second Amendment to the U.S.Constitution and applies to state and local jurisdictions.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

The program asks users - developers or state regulators, for example - to enter a description of the local land types, such as parking lots,rooftops,roads, grasses or woods, along with any water treatment areas.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

The target of the combined federal, state and local law enforcement effort is the notorious Mexican cartel known as La Familia, a major supplier of cocaine and methamphetamine to drug dealers in the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

"I have been seeing it more and more, that more people want to get involved, not only in their communities, but in their state and local governments and try and do what they can to make this world a better place.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24