Maura Healey broke new ground as the first woman and first openly gay candidate elected governor in Massachusetts, but her ...

An onerous 1970 law remains an open invitation for lawsuits. And reforms should make it easier to build the kind of housing ...

A custom app blocks TikTok, Instagram and games during school hours — and alerts administrators when students try to get ...

More than 8.3 million minimum-wage workers got a pay raise Jan. 1, marking the largest single-day wave of state minimum wage increases.

Utility bills are up by double-digit figures across much of the country and, increasingly, people can’t keep up. A quarter of U.S. households have been unable to pay their utility bill in full at ...

As states and cities navigated crisis, reform and political change, these were the stories readers turned to most in 2025 — from emergency management and public safety to housing, transit and federal ...

The latest report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) shows an 8.2 percent drop in roadway fatalities during the first half of 2025, the largest first-half decline since ...

As pennies vanish from the American landscape, many businesses are clamoring for federal guidance on how to handle cash ...

In the fall of 2011, Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire convened a meeting to review one of the proudest accomplishments of her two terms in office -- the state’s Government Management Accountability ...

States record varying high school graduation rates, which also differ significantly across student demographic groups. The U.S. Department of Education computes an adjusted graduation rate for states ...

For the last two years, a group of researchers at the New York University Marron Institute of Urban Management has been building a big database of public transit projects around the world. Their goal: ...

Pittsburgh has the most governments per capita of any metro area with a population exceeding 1 million. It’s not uncommon for one metropolitan area to be home to dozens of local governments. In lots ...