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

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

As long as Congress disregards the collateral damage that AI and other new technologies are already bringing to our economy, states and municipalities will need to move quickly to capture new revenues ...

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

Eric Adams’ failed reform bid is a warning sign for the new mayor attempting to take on one of the city’s most persistent ...