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People in remote areas have long lacked access to mental health services. The movement to fix that is showing signs of life.
Every 20 years, the United Nations has a conference to discuss the future of cities. So far, it appears almost no mayors from America will attend.
The water crisis in Michigan highlighted major problems with not just federal regulations but the way localities enforce them. That's all likely to change soon.
Some arrive on their own, worried about what was really in that bag of heroin. Some are carried in, slumped between two friends.
More than a year ago, civil rights and fair housing activists cheered when the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a lawsuit over housing segregation in Texas to go forward.
Many back-to-school shoppers used to be able to count on sales tax holidays at this time of year. But more states are disappointing them by rejecting or cutting back on the small tax breaks, as they seek more and steadier revenue to keep budgets balanced.
The federal judge who will preside over one of the trials challenging House Bill 2 issued a ruling on Friday that blocks the University of North California system from enforcing the bathroom portion of the controversial law for three transgender residents who have challenged it.
For the nearly two out of three American citizens who live in cities, life could be about to improve – or at least get a little easier for their mayors.
Millions of workers struggle to save for retirement in part because it isn’t easy enough to open an account or to have the money automatically deducted from their paychecks. But they could soon find themselves with more options.
Because the incentives for academic research are misaligned, it has little impact on the real world of public administration and policy.
It's a major expansion from a Feb. 16 advisory that limited such screening to areas with active Zika virus transmission.
Baton Rouge Mayor-President Kip Holden said Thursday about half the people who took on water lived in areas where residents aren't required by lenders to buy flood insurance. Many places experienced flooding that never had before.
Environmental rights groups are focusing efforts on a legal challenge to the Dakota Access Pipeline, a partially constructed oil line that has drawn thousands of Native American protesters to North Dakota in recent days.
When state lawmakers passed a new drunken driving law for people under the drinking age, they didn't realize that the change would make Tennessee the only state to run afoul of federal zero-tolerance standards.
The first handful of states have released approved 2017 rates for people who buy health insurance on their own and the results so far are consistent with what many expected: There are significant increases in premiums for next year.
The state will construct a $137.2-million overpass that will route car and truck traffic above the country's second-busiest passenger rail corridor.
The state was holding a record-setting $1 billion general treasury cash surplus when it closed the books on last fiscal year, an extraordinary sum that likely will alter the course of contract negotiations as the state and counties begin a new round of bargaining with Hawaii's public worker unions.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe will announce the shortfall – a projected $1.5 billion gap over the state's next two-year budget – to the General Assembly on Friday.
It would be the first state to adopt such a plan.
New data on displaced workers shows that those in the South have had the hardest time finding new jobs.
A Q&A with Umair Shah, director of one of the nation's biggest public health departments.
In a time of rapid change, being ready to fail early and get past it is essential.
Moves to withhold the recordings from the public just make the problem of public trust in law enforcement worse
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
The state will bring in mobile home units to help house flood victims. But officials emphasized the dwellings are different from the much-maligned "FEMA travel trailers."
Falling tax revenues have left a $654 million hole in the state budget, and New Mexico lawmakers learned Wednesday that the reserve fund for day-to-day government operations is completely drained.
Buffeted for years by financial crises, mass school closings and a teachers strike, Chicago Public Schools' new spending plan again relies on borrowing and a financial windfall from a gridlocked state government coming to fruition.
Home visits from physicians sound antiquated. But new analysis suggests the practice could save states more than $1,000 per patient each year.
Maine's congressional representatives vowed to implement the new monument despite their opposition to it. But Gov. Paul LePage called the president's move a "unilateral action against the will" of "the citizens of rural Maine."
Tennessee's insurance regulator made her remarks after signing off on hefty premium hikes in an extraordinary bid to keep the program afloat.
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