Years of public investment have added thousands of childcare slots, but high costs and shortages for infants continue to ...

State leaders have long acknowledged deep racial and economic divides in education. The challenge is turning decades of ...

Many legislatures closed budget gaps without sweeping cuts, but mounting fiscal pressures are narrowing their options.

Like other “wicked” problems, housing is hard to solve because it’s complicated. We hear there’s a lack of supply, but one of ...

San Jose, Calif. The city moved from static data collection to a learning-driven performance system. (Adobe Stock) Across the country, residents are watching their local governments struggle to keep ...

An analysis of projects and local opposition highlights the growing tensions surrounding AI infrastructure in rural ...

The annual Digital News Report from the Reuters Institute and the University of Oxford offers a look at where readers prefer to go for news. Its findings reflect trends that have been developing for ...

The Trump administration's push to remake the federal government has affected public health agencies. Staffing at the Centers ...

Several states are modifying building codes to reduce development costs, drawing concern from fire officials and safety ...

New York and California both recently amended their signature cap-and-invest programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, ...

Local leaders spend a lot of money and effort trying to grow regional economies while overlooking one of their biggest assets ...

The state has launched a mobile tool to help recipients navigate new limits on food purchases under its revised SNAP policy.