The FBI defines officers as employees who “ordinarily carry a firearm and a badge, have full arrest powers, and are paid from governmental funds set aside specifically to pay sworn law ...

After a February special legislative session gave gun-rights groups sweeping wins, bills to expand firearm-free zones have stalled. Expansion of the zones seems unlikely this year.

The state estimates it will have between $300 and $400 million of American Rescue Plan Act funding still available for use. The problem will be figuring out how to prioritize which programs get money.

Four Los Angeles city-based Metro board members urged the transit agency to adopt an aggressive conversion plan to meet the original goal of 100 percent zero-emission buses by 2030. But the five-year ...

The three-term lieutenant governor has already become one of the most powerful and successful policymakers in Texas history.

Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell wants voters to approve a half-cent sales tax to fund transit-service improvements and ...

The Supreme Court seems likely to curtail federal agencies’ interpretations of laws passed by Congress, but Washington ...

Organic waste in landfills is a major source of methane emissions. Orange County, Calif., is making progress in diverting it.

The court is considering whether criminal penalties for sleeping in public places amount to cruel and unusual punishment. But ...

ERCOT, the power grid operator for Texas, has warned of flaws in some solar, wind and battery storage resources that could disconnect the grid if there are frequency disturbances such as lightning ...

The Walmart grocery in Atlanta’s Vine City neighborhood. It closed two years ago following arsons at two of the company’s ...

As several states propose child marriage bans, Missouri state Sen. Holly Thompson Rehder hopes that she can use her ...