City Council President Mary Sheffield holds a commanding lead in the race to succeed Mayor Mike Duggan, signaling a milestone ...

The city’s long-delayed groundwater project will serve 500,000 by 2027, reducing dependence on imported water and ...

Holding city council meetings downtown during weekday business hours makes them inaccessible to too many residents. To open up civic participation, local governments should rethink their scheduling ...

Home prices have begun to stabilize ever so slightly in the last few months after years of rapid growth. Experts don’t expect them to plummet anytime soon.

A stretch of a historic highway in Lancaster, Calif., was transformed from a semi-freeway through town to an inviting space ...

It’s not yet clear how much financial support states can expect from a reimagined FEMA. A new analysis of past costs sheds ...

Education technology has a history of failure. It will take years — and a lot of humility, experimentation and assessment — ...

What’s happened in Wyoming illustrates how closed primary elections shut too many voters out of the electoral process, ...

More than half of surveyed mayors expect affordability to worsen next year, but their powers are constrained by state ...

Glitches in signal timing, breakdowns and crowding marred the Metro Express debut, as officials ask riders for patience ...

Gov. Tim Walz halted payments and ordered an independent audit across 14 high-risk programs amid growing political pressure.

Increased family formation requires a broad-based liberalization of land use regulations that will allow homes to be ...