Holding city council meetings downtown during weekday business hours makes them inaccessible to too many residents. To open up civic participation, local governments should rethink their scheduling ...

After state regulators approved direct potable reuse, city officials say they could avoid costly pipelines and reservoir ...

It’s not yet clear how much financial support states can expect from a reimagined FEMA. A new analysis of past costs sheds ...

More than half of surveyed mayors expect affordability to worsen next year, but their powers are constrained by state ...

Education technology has a history of failure. It will take years — and a lot of humility, experimentation and assessment — ...

Gov. Tim Walz halted payments and ordered an independent audit across 14 high-risk programs amid growing political pressure.

Tina Kotek joins the governors of at least 12 other mostly Democrat-led states — including Washington and California — in ...

Glitches in signal timing, breakdowns and crowding marred the Metro Express debut, as officials ask riders for patience ...

Increased family formation requires a broad-based liberalization of land use regulations that will allow homes to be ...

Nationally, fourth grade students’ reading scores have been sliding for a long time.  But in the past five years, Louisiana ...

Proposition 36 — which made certain repeat drug and theft crimes into felonies — did not allocate funding to expand treatment ...

Small-town shared workspaces are equipping residents with tools for creative collaboration and entrepreneurship. They’re ...