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

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

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

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 ...

A toolkit from a national commission emphasizes the importance of partnerships between public health leaders and elected ...

State and local governments have more power than they realize to keep older adults out of nursing homes. The tools are in the ...

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

A mobile clinic run by Denver Public Health provides COVID vaccines near a bus stop in Aurora, Colo. on June 23, 2021. Such community public health outreach has continued. (Markian Hawryluk/KHN/TNS) ...

The city of Somerville, Mass., recently hit a milestone. Three years have passed since anyone died in a traffic collision on ...

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 ...