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Like a lot of other places, the California city is struggling to grow without leaving longtime residents behind.
Housing prices in California continue to soar, in part because many cities have discouraged dense development. That’s led to a big fight in Sacramento over whether the state should force cities to allow apartment and condo buildings near transit stations.
The city of Portland will join a national movement by suing drug companies behind America's opioid crisis.
With federal spending on Medicaid experiments soaring in recent years, a congressional watchdog said state and federal governments fail to adequately evaluate if the efforts improve care and save money.
Frustrated by declining federal regulation of the environment and health disparities between poorer and wealthier communities, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Thursday appointed a team of lawyers to fight pollution.
He wanted me to see the boxes. They were piled six or seven high, and there were so many stacks on the shelves it was hard to take them in all at once.
State Sen. Carlos Uresti and co-defendant Gary Cain were found guilty Thursday on 20 combined felony charges in a criminal fraud trial over the past month that has stunned San Antonio and the state Capitol.
Broward County, Fla., Sheriff Scott Israel, referring to the armed school resource officer who heard gunfire inside the school where a mass shooting left 17 people dead but chose to stay outside. The officer was suspended without pay then immediately resigned and retired.
Minimum age Florida Gov. Rick Scott proposes for buying and owning a gun. In the wake of the Parkland school shooting, the Republican governor also called for, among other things, banning bump stocks and limiting gun ownership among people with mental health problems.
New studies suggest that school vouchers have minimal impact on college enrollment and even less of an effect on college graduation rates.
Clinics and health departments won't get more Title X funding until months after last year's money will have expired, and organizations like Planned Parenthood have new reason to worry they might get less.
They are calling on the Trump administration to, among other things, restore subsidy payments and support more state reinsurance programs.
Eight days after mass shooter Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 people inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Broward's top cop on Thursday revealed a stunning series of failures by the sheriff's department.
Sen. Tony Mendoza resigned from office Thursday as his colleagues considered an unprecedented vote to expel him.
Kansas acted improperly when it tried to cut off Medicaid dollars to Planned Parenthood under former Gov. Sam Brownback, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
John Kasich’s inner circle is gearing up for a possible presidential run in 2020 — actively weighing the prospect of a Republican primary challenge to President Donald Trump against the feasibility of a long-shot general election campaign as an independent.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott agreed Thursday evening to spare the life of death row inmate Thomas Whitaker, announcing his decision less than an hour before the Houston-area man's scheduled execution.
America has a skills gap. Governments across the U.S. are turning to European-style apprenticeship programs as a possible solution.
Eric Greitens, who already faced calls from both parties to resign, was charged on Thursday with a felony in connection with an extramarital affair and an alleged blackmail scheme.
Most states limit governors to two terms, but not New York and Wisconsin, where Andrew Cuomo and Scott Walker are both seeking reelection this year.
Water utilities are struggling to lower their operation costs and simultaneously meet stricter environmental rules. Blue Drop, the brainchild of DC Water’s former leader, wants to help.
In moments of disaster, local and federal resources are rarely enough. But another answer is emerging.
President Donald Trump on Thursday accused California law enforcement of being soft on street gangs and suggested he might pull immigration agents out of the state, prompting a strong rebuke from local officials who said the president doesn't understand their war on gangs.
Teachers across West Virginia walked off the job Thursday, demonstrating at the state Capitol and at some schools in frustration over what they say is state leaders' refusal to pay them and fund their benefits adequately.
Amid federal inaction on gun control, the Democratic governors of Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York and New Jersey have formed a multi-state coalition to better share information and pool resources to combat gun violence.
Decrease in rental housing stock and increase in rental prices after San Francisco applied its rent control law to more properties. Tenants living in rent-controlled units, however, did see savings.
Hennepin County, Minn., did a deep dive into what it was spending on the opioid crisis. The numbers were alarming.
Tyronne Stoudemire, Hyatt Hotels' diversity and inclusion executive, before handing a glass of chocolate milk to Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner. The governor drank it and remarked, "It’s really, really good. Diversity!"
Gov. Scott Walker is poised to sign a sweeping package of bills that would make it harder to qualify for many safety net programs.
Barely one in 10 students scored proficient on recent state reading exams.
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