It’s long been the default for aging people in cognitive decline. State policymakers have been moving toward an alternate ...

New enforcement provisions allow the city to pursue civil lawsuits against employers who fail to pay workers what they're ...

In a city without traditional zoning, communities founded by formerly enslaved people are struggling to preserve their ...

California is poised to elect its first Latino governor in more than 150 years, while the tenor of Democratic politics in the ...

A November ballot measure could significantly reduce funding for fire districts that rely on property taxes to pay for ...

This article is part of Governing’s Inside Politics newsletter. Sign up to subscribe. Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek found herself in an unusual position last month, asking her fellow Democrats in the state ...

DALLAS — Last year, Fort Worth gained a new distinction as Texas’ fourth city with more than 1 million people. While other major Texas cities grew at a slower clip or struggled to regain residents it ...

Local governments say they’re only seeking damages for harms, a fairly normal kind of lawsuit. The oil companies say the ...

Taylor Rehmet greets a supporter at his Senate District 9 runoff watch party at Nickel City in Fort Worth, Texas, on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. Texas’s first major election of 2026 saw Democrat Taylor ...

California's booming economy is one of the world's largest, but a peek behind the curtain exposes the forbidding reality of a statewide job market that is ranked as one of the nation's worst. "There's ...

A proposed constitutional amendment would establish an investment fund designed to eventually cover the cost of state ...

David Morales, a state representative in Rhode Island and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, won the Democratic ...