The St. Paul, Minn., Police Department has ended its mental health unit, as the city plans an approach it says will be more comprehensive. The Community Outreach and Stabilization Unit (COAST) ...

As the Sacramento, Calif., City Council prepared to consider a state of emergency over road safety, advocates pleaded for the city to prioritize infrastructure improvements over a police response.

Nine towns are suing New Jersey over a law implementing aspects of the state’s affordable housing requirements. The rules ...

The public likes what lawmakers around the country are doing, but the industry’s lobbyists are working hard to embed ...

The city has lost nearly 40 percent of its population since 1960; during most of those years it experienced an uninterrupted ...

The podcast cover image for this The Future in Context (TFIC) episode shows an AI-generated steampunk-inspired image of a civic tech hackathon. (DALL-E 3) Fifteen years after putting the civic in ...

The state’s Industrial Commission, made up of the governor, attorney general and agricultural commissioner, has approved a project to expand education about carbon dioxide capture and storage, which ...

A car swept up in flood waters on State Street in Montpelier, Vermont. Changing rain patterns are forcing a reconsideration of the state's "climate haven" status. Floods are the most common and ...

Local governments have jurisdiction over the third-largest source of methane emissions: the decomposition of organic waste in ...

In the past year, 83 percent of Georgia’s corporate recruitment has landed outside of the 10-county Atlanta area. A new program, Georgia Match, sent more than 132,000 letters to high school seniors to ...

Sonoma County officials hope the new policy will act as a guide for how to appropriately use AI technology for emails, reports, job descriptions, spreadsheet calculations and more. But the policy ...

As they expanded eligibility under the Affordable Care Act, some skirted the law by misclassifying new enrollees to maximize ...