Trust in local government has declined in recent years. Liberty Lake, Wash., has found ways to assure residents their voices ...

Cutting this unloved levy has again become a flashpoint in some states, once more raising difficult issues of fairness.

Above all, staff needs support. And there are techniques for keeping violence in check. Everybody — officers, inmates and ...

The Center for Internet Security is evaluating how funding cuts will impact election security support services, including ...

Critics say the Biden administration encouraged banks to remove politically controversial customers in the name of ...

Lawmakers approved a bill with mandatory work requirements for Medicaid and new oversight measures, restricting the ...

Even as public employee unions fight the Trump administration’s personnel cuts, a pair of GOP senators want to ban federal ...

child care programs to shut down between late 2019 and early 2021. Flemings now works as a behavior analyst, a career she has ...

It’s often legal for officers to deceive suspects — but critics say this can lead to false confessions. Experts have mixed ...

The nations were attempting to finalize updates to the 61-year-old Columbia River Treaty, which governs cross-border water ...

A historian makes that argument in a new book. But maybe we just don’t want — or need — to move as much as we used to.

The impending defeats of three big-city mayors tell us a lot about how politics have changed over the past four years. Also, ...