A proposal under the state budget would end the need for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities to qualify ...

The proposal would shake up the finances of hundreds of institutions that use race as a factor in admissions, scholarships or ...

Nine months after Monroe County Hospital in rural South Alabama closed its labor and delivery department in October 2023, Grove Hill Memorial Hospital in neighboring Clarke County also stopped ...

Cuts to energy programs in the House "big beautiful bill" could slow clean energy innovation and deployment, according to a recent report. Impacts on state economies could be significant. Modeling by ...

Millions are likely to lose health insurance, and there is no credible data that imposing such rules would save money. They would hurt rural communities and red states as much as blue ones.

A statue in Times Square depicting an ordinary Black woman has held up a mirror to people's attitudes about race and ...

Trump's decision to deploy the National Guard against anti-deportation protesters is sadly familiar after other attacks on ...

There are places we shouldn’t be living. With federal disaster aid uncertain, states and localities should build voluntary ...

The state is devoting $50 million to a research consortium looking into the effects of ibogaine, an illegal drug being touted ...

The city faces a $250 million shortfall. It’s hired 4,000 more workers over the past decade and expanded services, but ...

The Legislature is poised to put a constitutional amendment on next year’s ballot that would make thousands of state jobs ...

Abbott has won a number of major legislative victories over the past couple of sessions, including a long-awaited expansion ...