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Sprucing up a park can spur unintended gentrification. Is there a way to green a neighborhood without displacing its residents?
Sheldon Silver, who lost his job as one of the most powerful political posts in New York, is the fourth state house speaker to face legal trouble over the past year.
It’s hard to define, but it's dramatically changing the urban landscape and bringing a host of new challenges to local leaders.
In the nation's fastest-gentrifying neighborhood, some of the strongest affordable housing protections haven’t been enough to keep lower-income residents from being priced out of their homes.
Poverty in suburbs now outnumbers poverty in cities, a shift that’s put a major strain on public services and is easily visible in Austin, Texas.
After several years, Gov. Rick Snyder has finally convinced lawmakers to spend more money on roads. There's one hitch: The state's voters have to approve the deal in May.
This map displays every U.S. streetcar system, side by side, that’s either open or under construction.
Seattle is one of only a handful of places that formally recognizes and regulates homeless encampments.
Houston Mayor Annise Parker and her executive team bonded at 14,000 feet.
Amount spent by the Texas Department of Transportation to reimburse employees for education costs between 2002 and 2015, which is roughly half of the total employee education reimbursement expenses for the entire state.
Officials say the legalization of the drug has raised questions about its health effects that can only be answered by studying large amounts and different strains of marijuana.
Newly elected state Treasurer Matt Adamczyk would really like to just eliminate his office altogether.
State prison officials hold hundreds of inmates in prison every year because they can't find places for paroled people to live.
Gentrification has accelerated in recent years, creating challenges for local leaders for years to come.
Oakland County, Michigan, residents will soon be able to text 911 to get emergency help.
President Barack Obama said Sunday that he planned to ask Congress to declare much of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness, including its 1.5-million-acre coastal plain, an area on Alaska's North Slope suspected to contain vast reserves of oil and gas.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and his allies have started a political action committee, taking the first concrete step toward launching a presidential bid and joining the battle for the Republican Party's top donors.
Sheriffs are campaigning to pressure Google Inc. to turn off a feature on its Waze traffic software that warns drivers when police are nearby.
With federal approval in doubt, Gov. Scott Walker is moving ahead with his campaign pledge to ensure that drug users aren't getting public health care, food stamp or jobless benefits.
Embattled Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and his allies crafted a deal Sunday night to let the Manhattan Democrat "temporarily" cede responsibilities of running the chamber to five colleagues while he fights federal corruption charges against him.
Medi-Cal applicants who have been waiting for more than 45 days can receive temporary health benefits while officials determine eligibility for the public insurance program, a state Superior Court judge ruled this week.
Lillian Palermo tried to prepare for the worst possibilities of aging. An insurance executive with a Ph.D. in psychology and a love of ballroom dancing, she arranged for her power of attorney and health care proxy to go to her husband, Dino, eight years her junior, if she became incapacitated. And in her 80s, she did.
Promising new approaches have emerged to overcome rules that inhibit the sharing of information critical to evidence-based policymaking.
Nowhere is that more true than within regions. It calls for an integrated approach to planning and funding.
Our economy is increasingly service-based. The way we raise the revenue to support our local governments needs to reflect that.
A former D.C. housing official gives a hard look at what worked, and what didn't, in an award-winning redevelopment project.
Is it because of safety fears or just a desire for more revenue?
Personal-belief exemptions from vaccinations have dropped in the state.
Miami backs a $430 million hairpin tower. Is it too ugly?
New Jersey's governor has received more than 1,100 gifts since he took office in 2010,
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