President Trump, who calls FEMA “not good,” has issued an executive order and established a commission to look at ending the agency. He favors having states respond to their own disasters, but they ...

Understaffed police departments and concerns over public safety are spurring greater use of private security guards. But they aren't a perfect substitute.

For years, states strictly limited the amount of time people could be institutionalized. With homelessness rising, some policymakers want to do more.

South Carolina residents are seeing rates go down thanks to a law passed in 2022, but the state still charges a lot more than North Carolina and other southeastern neighbors.

Pregnant women who are incarcerated will move into the facility next week. For now, only women with 18 months or less to ...

A combined federal and state effort to redesign the boondoggle-prone economic development program could also provide the ...

After a two-year investigation into a sprawling donor network, the Fair Political Practices Commission found it did not ...

Gloria Sachdev has spent years taking on the health-care establishment in Indiana, working to pull down high hospital prices ...

They split their tickets in last year’s elections more than they have in the past, and they were more likely to identify as moderates. It’s cause for optimism.

A professor of practice at Arizona State University and co-director of ASU’s Center for an Independent and Sustainable Democracy.

Last month, the EPA issued a rule to step up monitoring and limit worker exposure to ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing molecule. But in his first term, Trump rolled back dozens of environmental rules, ...

Some programmers and engineers are willing to forego private-sector pay to find meaningful work. But governments need to be more nimble about hiring.