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 ...

A stretch of a historic highway in Lancaster, Calif., was transformed from a semi-freeway through town to an inviting space ...

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

What’s happened in Wyoming illustrates how closed primary elections shut too many voters out of the electoral process, ...

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

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

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

Conservatives backed criminal justice reforms in hopes of driving down corrections costs and state budgets. A lot of violent and repeat offenders would have to be released to achieve real savings.

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

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

It’s not unusual to see teenagers at the Cool Cat Cafe in Kīhei playing one of the restaurant’s two pinball machines, with ...

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