States are spending 15 percent of their home-generated revenue on the program, seeing their largest cost increases in 20 ...

Like some other states, Indiana is moving away from criminal justice reform efforts, imposing new penalties for homicide, ...

The growth of cities between San Antonio and Austin, separated by 75 miles, is creating one massive metro region.

Last year, a total of $13 billion in public subsidies were proposed for stadiums. Taxpayer money could pay bigger returns ...

The public sector is more obsessed than ever with using data to make decisions. But some think the quality of it may be getting worse.

The notion of controlling development and limiting suburban sprawl is finding some traction in pockets of the Sun Belt and ...

Threats down to the local level have grown more pervasive. Party officials worry that recent shootings could have a deterring ...

A slew of measures that passed the Senate failed to come up for a vote in the Assembly. Advocates blame Speaker Carl Heastie, ...

Overall state aid to colleges and universities was flat this year but lawmakers approved $610 million in construction, with ...

The state is seeing a larger decline in residents 18 and younger than any other state. It’s also getting older and seeing losses in its working-age population.

It won’t be easy, but former mayors Michael Tubbs and Aja Brown hope to prevent displaced lower income Altadena residents ...

Ruthzee Louijeune is the city’s first Haitian American City Council president. Now she’s fighting the Trump administration on ...