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 ...

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.

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.

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

As long as Congress disregards the collateral damage that AI and other new technologies are already bringing to our economy, states and municipalities will need to move quickly to capture new revenues ...

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 ...

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

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/> ...

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