Years of public investment have added thousands of childcare slots, but high costs and shortages for infants continue to ...

Many legislatures closed budget gaps without sweeping cuts, but mounting fiscal pressures are narrowing their options.

State leaders have long acknowledged deep racial and economic divides in education. The challenge is turning decades of ...

Like other “wicked” problems, housing is hard to solve because it’s complicated. We hear there’s a lack of supply, but one of ...

The annual Digital News Report from the Reuters Institute and the University of Oxford offers a look at where readers prefer to go for news. Its findings reflect trends that have been developing for ...

The city needed to move from static data collection to a system that helps leaders work across departments, gather real-time ...

An analysis of projects and local opposition highlights the growing tensions surrounding AI infrastructure in rural ...

New York and California both recently amended their signature cap-and-invest programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, ...

Local leaders spend a lot of money and effort trying to grow regional economies while overlooking one of their biggest assets ...

The Trump administration's push to remake the federal government has affected public health agencies. Staffing at the Centers ...

Several states are modifying building codes to reduce development costs, drawing concern from fire officials and safety ...

Record temperatures are creating new pressures on state budgets tied to emergency response, health care costs and ...