Big-city mayors are experiencing whiplash as violent crime drops to historic lows following a sharp spike in the early ...

The Department of Education is being dismantled, but the federal role in education is not. States and school districts will ...

These states face the most potential disruption if the Trump administration is able to implement new mail voting rules by the ...

Two fires destroyed more than 800 structures, but the state’s request for federal disaster assistance remains unsigned.

Six incarcerated women have become the state’s first prison students to earn bachelor’s degrees, part of an expanding higher education program aimed at creating opportunity and reducing recidivism.

Rochester’s rapid growth is putting new pressure on groundwater supplies, raising difficult questions about development and water use in a state accustomed to abundance.

Local leaders are more apprehensive than ever about appearing in public, a survey from Princeton’s Bridging Divides ...

Diversity alone won’t get the votes for funding public education. It takes communities that are more integrated and connected ...

Two cities are using cameras and AI-powered vision language to more quickly track neighborhood nuisances, from abandoned cars ...

At least 30 states are paying parents to care for children with disabilities or complex medical needs, but determining cost ...

The two-term Democrat restored fiscal stability and scored major economic development wins while working with Republican ...

Sheriffs receive 20 percent of the state’s opioid settlement money, but they aren’t required to report their spending — ...