A new report from Brookings shows how state departments of transportation have a free hand to spend on highway projects, but don’t keep good track of progress toward specific goals.

His second presidency could recolor the landscape for federal spending, with ramifications for states, local governments, schools and public pensions. Governors and mayors will need to try to discern ...

More than four years after the pandemic began dramatically changing downtown economies, recent information shows that cities are finally recovering from the effects of the widespread shift to remote ...

More than half of California renters spend at least 30 percent of their income on housing, making it the fifth-highest rate in the country. But a measure that would have lifted restrictions on local ...

Police officers monitor the East High School campus in Denver. The district's board had voted in 2020 to remove them from campus, but they were reinstated in April 2023 after a shooting at the school.

The increase of energy demand across the country is growing to rates that haven’t been seen since the end of World War II.

A new Brookings analysis of counties' 2024 presidential vote shows that lower-output, small town, and rural areas still comprise the foundation of the GOP base. But they've been joined by numerous new ...

Voters in several states last week delivered a stinging rebuke to ranked choice voting, clouding the future of an idea that had seen strong momentum in recent years. Ranked choice voting, which allows ...

In Maryland and several other states, many of the reductions have come thanks to the retirement of coal-fired power plants.

Seasonal retail and health-care hires did not offset the loss of jobs in the professional services and construction sectors in October, resulting in a net loss of 1,000 jobs in Minnesota.

Local leaders and rural revitalization experts say Texas’ smallest towns can survive despite a shift to urban and suburban ...

The political landscape has shifted dramatically in Vermont. Nationally, the election showed that partisanship matters most ...