For decades, young people chose to move to cities and large metros for greater opportunity. Since the pandemic, that ...

Voting and election administration became contentious topics after 2020. This time, years of preparation, efforts to improve ...

Local officials are sorting out the impacts from the approval of 16 propositions. Voters rejected salary increases for councilmembers, tightened term limits and streamlined pathways to sue officials.

If it moves on Taiwan, it’s likely that China would try to distract the United States by attacking our water, power and communications systems. It’s already demonstrated those capabilities here, and ...

There once was a Texas sugar plantation where cane fields stretched as far as the eye could see, and enslaved people—primarily African Americans—toiled away in the heat. In time, the plantation grew ...

A half-dozen states rejected ranked-choice voting, although Washington, D.C., approved a measure. School choice fared poorly, while increasing criminal penalties proved to be popular.

Oakland voters recalled the mayor and county prosecutor, while Los Angeles voters fired their progressive district attorney. Across the country, several major cities elected new mayors.

Republicans took control of the Michigan House and will share power in the Minnesota House, blocking the home-state agenda of Gov. Tim Walz.

Like some of its Midwestern and Northwestern neighbors, it put the program on a solid fiscal foundation. California and New York show the consequences of failing.

Abortion rights measures failed in Florida and South Dakota. However, voters in several other states passed similar initiatives. Florida voters also delivered a rare defeat to supporters of marijuana ...

Former Sen. Kelly Ayotte is leading in the New Hampshire race. There's no sign of a partisan flip anywhere in the country so far.

The governors of Illinois, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania have called on an electric grid operator to take “swift action” on record-setting electricity prices during times of high ...