Officials from both parties have halted proposed warehouse conversions in several states, even as federal officials continue ...

Proposed legislation would allow schools to check immigration status and potentially deny enrollment or charge tuition, ...

States are beginning to receive hundreds of millions from a new $50 billion federal rural health program, but lawmakers and health groups are challenging how the money will be spent.<br/> ...

Formerly incarcerated women have expertise that is policy-ready. We need to mandate including them on the bodies that shape jails, prisons, parole, sentencing and reentry.

Between 2023 and 2025, the city cleared encampments and quickly built new shelters. It reduced the unsheltered homeless ...

The U.S. homeland is out of range of military strikes, but state and local governments could see cyber attacks, cloud service disruptions and rising supply costs.

This long-depressed city has overcome some of its most serious problems. Maybe others can accomplish the same thing.

With local governments facing persistent budget pressures, public-private partnerships can help deliver critical services, ...

Mississippi’s Black voters recently won a victory that puts them on the brink of having greater sway over who sits on the ...

Researchers need access to agency data, but it can be difficult or impossible to come by. You can’t solve a problem you can’t ...

One exception has been in the Northeast. Angus King of Maine and Bernie Sanders of Vermont are the Senate’s only independents ...

Inmates and families say costly per-minute fees and limited services under a widely adopted system have turned a ...