Rather than limiting curfews to downtown, police could give teens a half-hour to disperse from any part of the city at any ...

Climate change policies are often cast as conflicting with kitchen-table economic concerns. A working group of mayors from ...

Any future income tax increases would require supermajority votes. If the state House approves it, the amendment would go to ...

It’s appealing to say that disaster relief should be left to states and localities. The less appealing reality is that they aren’t up to the job.

After a long economic slump, the post-industrial New England city is encouraging development, filling vacant properties and ...

The proposal would create a state-appointed board to oversee the local school board on budgets, contracts, property and policy. It could also allow those board members and district officials to be ...

The state Senate passed a bill that falls short of proposals put forward by Gov. Mike Braun, but the Republican signaled he's ...

Last year, 6.2 million fewer Democrats showed up to vote than in 2020. Nine hundred thousand stayed home in Los Angeles and ...

Congress and some red states are pushing for work requirements but most recipients already work. Medicaid and other state ...

Shortages are so bad in some counties that defendants have had to be released because they can’t be tried in a timely manner.

The construction industry is short by nearly a half-million workers. More states could emulate Wisconsin's growing apprentice program.

The Washington state district didn’t just make students put phones away. They increased field trips and extracurricular ...