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Caroline Cournoyer

Senior Web Editor

Caroline Cournoyer -- Senior Web Editor. Caroline covered federal policy and politics for CongressNow, the former legislative wire service for Roll Call, has written for Education Week's Teacher Magazine, and learned the ins and outs of state and local government while working as an assistant editor at WTOP Radio.

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New residents that Alameda County, Calif., which includes Oakland, gained last year -- much lower than the more than 13,000 new residents it had regularly gained for years. It reflects a larger trend of migration to the West and the South slowing down after years of explosive growth.
Judge Lawrence Knipel, in his dismissal last week of a lawsuit against New York City's emergency requirement for some residents to get the measles vaccine. There has been an outbreak of the once-eradicated disease in certain parts of the city.
Spurred by a measles outbreak that has sickened 74 kids in Washington this year and the biggest national resurgence of the disease in at least five years, the Washington state Senate late Wednesday voted to remove parents' ability to exempt their children from a vaccination for personal or philosophical reasons. But the stricter rules would apply only to one vaccine -- the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination.
The S.C. Senate took a major step Wednesday in the fight against oil drilling along the S.C. coast, agreeing overwhelmingly to block the petroleum industry from establishing refineries, pipes and other infrastructure needed to support drilling.
Though it faced a near death in the Senate Rules Committee, a contentious bill aimed at banning so-called "sanctuary cities" is headed to the Senate floor.
Amount the former first lady of Oregon has agreed to pay to settle an ethics case against her. Cynthia Hayes worked as a paid consultant and an unpaid policy adviser to John Kitzhaber, who resigned in 2015 over the scandal.
Emma Stone, president of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Student Leadership Council, after Pennsylvania lawmakers voted to make the Eastern hellbender salamander the state's official amphibian. Because of hellbenders' sensitivity to pollution, their population has declined, making it an endangered species in some states.
Without enough volunteers to respond to emergencies, some fire departments are cutting services or even shutting down. Most are changing the way they recruit.
Louisiana district attorneys oppose a bill that would prohibit prosecutors from putting sexual assault and domestic violence victims in jail in order to compel them to testify in criminal cases against their perpetrators.
Workplace wellness programs have become an $8 billion industry in the U.S. But a study published Tuesday in JAMA found they don’t cut costs for employers, reduce absenteeism or improve workers’ health.