The impact didn’t last long-term. Violent crime, especially aggravated assaults, rebounded around 21 months after the ...

Too often, governments fail to account for the cost of making the most of new infrastructure, technological capabilities or ...

The city is building on research showing that when infants and toddlers hear at least 21,000 words a day, they develop ...

Governors often like to say they have the best job in politics, enjoying lots of agenda-setting deference in their home ...

Commentators and observers are concerned about the possibility of a tie in the November 2024 presidential election. One possibility is that both major-party candidates end up with 269 electoral votes ...

Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa won the race for governor, the first Democrat to win the office since 1990. She beat incumbent Greg Abbott, who was seeking a fourth term.

Democrats flipped at least 10 legislative chambers this week and won six new trifectas. After years on the back foot, they’ll have to decide how ambitiously to wield their newfound power in the states ...

Governing talked with election officials across the country on Wednesday about what went right and how they handled the few ...

The first-of-its-kind state lawsuit accuses the social media giant of knowingly profiting from fraudulent advertising on ...

A sharply reduced baseline for measuring single-use plastic means the state's ambitious 2032 reduction target could eliminate ...

Maryland and Missouri voters weighed competing congressional maps, Massachusetts rejected open primaries, and Alaska ...

About one-third of states enacted major housing reforms in 2026, easing zoning restrictions, parking requirements and ...