With local governments facing persistent budget pressures, public-private partnerships can help deliver critical services, ...

How can tariffs affect not just consumers, but state economies? An economist who studies trade policy offers an overview.

Shelly Willingham, one of three Democratic incumbents who lost their reelection bids after voting several times with Republicans, the North Carolina Democratic Party is no longer a “big tent” party.

Lawmakers halted a proposal to bar unvaccinated children from schools as the state faces its largest measles outbreak in two decades.

Especially when it comes to data centers, it’s hard to square the costs to taxpayers with the benefits to states’ economies.

The U.S. House and Senate have both voted for a package of changes to federal housing programs, with broad backing from cities and states. A final bill could get a vote this week.

Soundproof booths equipped with computers and high-speed Internet aim to reduce barriers to care in communities where doctors ...

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

Researchers need access to agency data, but it can be difficult or impossible to come by. You can’t solve a problem you can’t ...

One exception has been in the Northeast. Angus King of Maine and Bernie Sanders of Vermont are the Senate’s only independents ...

Eric Adams’ failed reform bid is a warning sign for the new mayor attempting to take on one of the city’s most persistent ...

With up to 700,000 visitors expected over three days, planners are weighing how the city’s roads, transit system and hotel supply will manage the surge.