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Performance data hasn’t worked out the way it was intended.
Cities must resist this vocal minority using pseudoscience. Their budgets are at stake.
They're beginning to reshape local government in a big way.
Making neighborhoods denser is an idea with growing appeal. The question is whether it works.
The administration is focusing on a level of government that past presidents have often neglected.
Google’s sister company wants to build the city of the future on Toronto’s waterfront, raising concerns over privacy and the role of government.
Counselors say budget cuts have left them unable to respond to students’ mental health needs.
Cautiously and slowly, governments are taking more risks and modernizing the way they purchase goods and services.
Supporters of the initiatives will have to wait at least two years before they go before voters.
The policy was intended to discourage government dependence. It didn’t seem to work.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson spearheaded the streamlining.
Photos and musings from our photographer.
Washington state is going further than any other to cover aging Americans' medical bills.
As the EPA and Congress debate PFAS regulations, local governments are taking action to protect people from toxic chemicals used in the production of practically everything.
Still, a few states may miss the July deadline, leading to a government shutdown in some.
White enrollment in private schools creates stark disparities in many districts.
The ruling, which united an unusual coalition of justices, could boost Democrats' chances in November.
Stormy Deere, a resident of Redwood, Miss., whose home is surrounded by chest-deep water that's expected to stay there until at least July, months after record rainfall caused parts of the Mississippi River to flood for the longest time since 1927. She now travels by boat.
Long-term health care workers who are immigrants. According to a new study, the Trump administration's immigration policies could worsen workforce shortages in this industry, which already suffers from high turnover.
The bill, SB 168, requires local and state law enforcement officials and entities to honor federal "immigration detainer" requests, which ask a law enforcement agency to detain someone on probable cause that they are "removable" under federal immigration laws.
California is beefing up Obamacare, restoring an individual mandate, expanding health insurance subsidies well into the middle class and covering some undocumented adults through Medicaid.
The high court unanimously ruled that the actual language of the 556-word amendment -- although dense and complex -- should have been presented to voters on the statewide ballot last November.
City officials said the contribution, which would be included in the budget being negotiated between the Council and the mayor’s office, would allow about 500 women to terminate their pregnancies.
Texas has resisted recent attempts to change its vaccine laws, allowing parents to get their children exemptions for "reasons of conscience."
Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego said she was "sick" over a video showing a police officer pointing his gun at a mother and her two children, while another cop slammed a father against a car and kicked him because of shoplifting allegations.
With jobs unfilled and young people moving away, some rural states are doubling down on efforts to attract new blood by expanding programs that offer incentives to live there.
Hours that California utilities will start charging customers extra for weekday energy use. It will be the first to implement statewide surge pricing.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, after her department announced that it was dropping the remaining criminal charges for the Flint water crisis. The cases were dismissed without prejudice -- meaning they could be refiled -- in order to conduct a full and complete investigation.
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