The Trump administration is imposing stricter financial tests on Medicaid waivers, potentially limiting states’ ability to use them to expand services and try new approaches.

The state is investing opioid settlement dollars in mobile methadone clinics designed to overcome the transportation barriers facing rural residents.

Falling birth rates and families leaving Baltimore are shrinking school enrollment, forcing difficult decisions about buildings that have long served as anchors of their neighborhoods.

The city replaced a cumbersome hiring process with a digital system that can get candidates into the police academy in less than two months.

There have been some promising reforms to occupational licensing, but too many states still erect barriers that don’t reflect ...

Healthcare providers in Texas say the Rural Health Transformation Program provides much-needed funding. But they worry about ...

Mona Miyasato has been the Santa Barbara County executive officer, the top unelected official, since 2013. She’s retiring ...

Eighteen months after the Eaton and Palisades fires, survivors are running out of resources and far short of what they will ...

New York City and the MTA are studying a possible thermal energy network in Lower Manhattan, hoping to capture excess heat ...

Nearly 15 years after the state began reforming school discipline, suspensions are down but emergency removals have more than ...

The governor made faster permitting and major investment central to his argument that government can get things done. Growing ...

In too many places it costs more to build than market-rate homes. Colorado is an exception, thanks to an array of policies ...