These states face the most potential disruption if the Trump administration is able to implement new mail voting rules by the midterm elections.
Six incarcerated women have become the state’s first prison students to earn bachelor’s degrees, part of an expanding higher education program aimed at creating opportunity and reducing recidivism.
Two fires destroyed more than 800 structures, but the state’s request for federal disaster assistance remains unsigned.
Rochester’s rapid growth is putting new pressure on groundwater supplies, raising difficult questions about development and water use in a state accustomed to abundance.