Thousands of new private schools have opened as public funding expands, but many states have chosen a hands-off approach to ...

A Mississippi community's struggle to restore local healthcare highlights the growing challenge facing rural counties ...

Oklahoma's decision to stop using foster children's Social Security benefits to pay back the state reflects growing federal ...

Steve Waldrip, a senior adviser on housing for Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, will lead a new state Division of Housing and Community ...

Homicides in the U.S. moves in near lockstep with trends in drug overdoses, alcohol consumption and firearm purchases, and de ...

Somerville, Mass., has gone more than three years without a traffic death. The city has invested in a range of traffic-calming measures, including more speed bumps, more visible crosswalks, better ...

For the first time since 2019, enrollment in health insurance programs offered through Affordable Care Act health exchanges ...

A Wisconsin report highlights the growing financial burden on states and local governments when federal disaster assistance ...

As new work requirements and funding pressures take hold, some states are calling out businesses whose employees rely on ...

States are preparing for a future with slower revenue growth and rising demand for health, transportation and other public ...

A new report shows housing costs increasingly out of reach for Houstonians. Black homeownership shrank by the biggest margin ...