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

One California re-entry program boasts a 92 percent success rate in helping former prisoners find jobs or continue schooling ...

Mamdani intends to freeze rent and offer free bus service and child care. Although a Democratic socialist, he insists he will ...

One promising approach is a dedicated specialist to prevent ordinary pain management from turning into the kind of addiction ...

The court ruled that states can deny Medicaid payments for medical screenings and other services at the abortion provider. The decision reverses prior policy allowing any qualified provider to be paid ...

A 2018 housing bond in the Portland region has helped produce more units than it initially promised to voters. But the region ...

Citing successes other police departments across the country have seen using drones, the Los Angeles Police Commission said ...

The Connecticut General Assembly’s most far-reaching housing bill in years is sitting on Gov. Ned Lamont’s desk. His fellow Democrats are waiting anxiously to see whether he will sign it.

School choice programs provide state money to help families who want to educate their kids outside of public school. After ...

Now 25,000 members strong, financially secure and long blessed with thoughtful leadership, the Government Finance Officers ...

Since 2018, state spending on hotels for unsheltered individuals has tripled. Conditions are often inadequate and some worry ...

The incinerated town of Lahaina has barely begun to recover. Policymakers have scrambled to ease inflexible laws and ...