An outreach worker on the streets of New Orleans. In visiting encampments with the director of the city’s new Office of Homeless Services and Strategy, Councilwoman Lesli Harris has visited ...

A guard tower at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in Otay Mesa, Calif. (Howard Lipin/San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS) California is facing a multibillion-dollar budget deficit that will ...

An AI-generated fake photo, created and circulated by a radio talk show host, portraying Black people supporting former President Donald Trump. (Google Images) This year promises to be a whopper ...

Bill author state Rep. Dodie Horton argued that the Ten Commandments are the “basis of all laws in Louisiana” and the legislation honors the country’s religious origins. The bill must be signed by the ...

A 53-page report details the bureaucratic dysfunction that allowed the Ohio county to pay for a jail management system it never used due to a signing bonus fixation, lack of planning and poor ...

The state House Education Committee unanimously approved a measure on Tuesday that would bar protests by any organization funded by a foreign adversary. It would also prohibit professors from imposing ...

On Wednesday, senators rejected efforts to roll back guidance from the Treasury Department regarding how state and local ...

Lenin Romero was framing windows on a home in Wilmington, N.C., when he fell from a ladder and was impaled by a steel rod. If a $2.30 safety cap had been placed over the rod, it likely would have ...

The state experienced a 16 percent decrease in fatal overdoses in 2023, which is more than five times the nationwide decline. This was also the state’s first year-over-year reduction in fatalities ...

In multiple states, voters will decide whether to reject justices who upheld abortion bans and restrictions. Separately, many ...

New technology makes it possible for rooftop receivers in rural areas to deliver Internet connections at speeds comparable to fiber. Four in ten Americans in rural communities don’t have access ...

These payments are making it possible for early educators to stay in their profession, stabilizing child care in D.C. at a time when many other regions are experiencing shortages. In our surveys ...