After calling to “free the T” in her 2021 campaign, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu abolished fares on three busy transit lines. Ridership on them increased substantially, but with federal money drying up ...

Corpus Christi leaders say a water emergency could arrive within months, with shortages potentially disrupting major industries and fuel distribution.

For the first time in the decade that homeless mortality has been tracked in Los Angeles County, fewer people have died on the streets and in shelters, the Department of Public Health reported Tuesday ...

A proposed statewide Domestic Workers Bill of Rights would cover housekeepers and other workers employed in private homes and give them access to wage, discrimination and enforcement protections.

In many states, it’s too easy for malicious actors to gain access to EBT cards. Officials in California, and now several other states, are trying to change that.

Proposed legislation would allow schools to check immigration status and potentially deny enrollment or charge tuition, ...

Officials from both parties have halted proposed warehouse conversions in several states, even as federal officials continue ...

The U.S. homeland is out of range of military strikes, but state and local governments could see cyber attacks, cloud service disruptions and rising supply costs.

Between 2023 and 2025, the city cleared encampments and quickly built new shelters. It reduced the unsheltered homeless ...

States are beginning to receive hundreds of millions from a new $50 billion federal rural health program, but lawmakers and health groups are challenging how the money will be spent.<br/> ...

This long-depressed city has overcome some of its most serious problems. Maybe others can accomplish the same thing.

Mississippi’s Black voters recently won a victory that puts them on the brink of having greater sway over who sits on the ...