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 ...

A view of Mount Auburn Cemetery, painted by Thomas Chambers. The grounds were modeled after English gardens and European garden cemeteries like the Parisian Père Lachaise, designed in 1804. (Courtesy ...

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 ...

The good news is that more low-income Americans report they have access to vehicles than they did a decade ago, before the Great Recession. Only 20 percent of adults living in poverty in 2016 reported ...

A volunteer hands out bottled water to residents of Jackson, Miss., last fall at a distribution site set up by World Central Kitchen. The city’s clean-water emergency was caused in part by a shortage ...

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: ...

Numbers of U.S. military service members vary by state, driven mostly by workforce levels at large bases. There were a total of 1.3 million active duty military and more than 800,000 reserve forces as ...