Groups of renters in five cities have formed a Tenant Union Federation to build power locally and advocate for changes to ...

The databases are fraught with problems from due process to privacy rights to racial and ethnic disparities, raising the ...

The Inflation Reduction Act includes tax credits that reimburse governments for clean energy investments. New online resources make the program more understandable and accessible.

Each year, more trees fall in cities than are harvested from national forests, putting infrastructure at risk. Researchers estimate that urban trees could replace about 10 percent of the nation’s ...

The state is just one of 13 in which prosecutors can try children as adults without getting approval from a judge. Only 10 percent of the more than 20,000 children tried as adults in Florida were ...

Last year, when COVID vaccines were still free, barely one in five Americans rolled up their sleeves for the latest dose. Now that some people will have to pay $100-plus for the shot, health officials ...

The pandemic wrought a nationwide crisis in school attendance. How did Governor Daniel McKee get Rhode Island students back ...

The continuing injustice of Flint should be a wakeup call. With billions flowing from Washington and millions of lead pipes still in place across the country, now is the time to establish access to ...

Bills addressing retail theft and car break-ins represented an attempt by Democrats to sway voters ahead of a ballot ...

Since COVID, there's been an increase in the number of parents not getting their kids vaccinated for diseases such as chicken ...

Gun rights groups spent a total of $33.2 million in the 2020 election to re-elect Trump; the NRA alone spent more than $16 million. Gun control groups also spent $23.5 million in 2020 to boost ...

Zoning changes in cities such as Minneapolis have helped prompt new construction, but allowing more units on formerly ...