In Maryland and several other states, many of the reductions have come thanks to the retirement of coal-fired power plants.

A new Brookings analysis of counties' 2024 presidential vote shows that lower-output, small town, and rural areas still comprise the foundation of the GOP base. But they've been joined by numerous new ...

The increase of energy demand across the country is growing to rates that haven’t been seen since the end of World War II.

Seasonal retail and health care hires did not offset the loss of jobs in the professional services and construction sectors in October, resulting in a net loss of 1,000 jobs in Minnesota . And while a ...

Voters in several states last week delivered a stinging rebuke to ranked choice voting, clouding the future of an idea that had seen strong momentum in recent years. Ranked choice voting, which allows ...

Arkansas, like many places in the United States, is in the middle of a solar boom, and projects are sprouting up on prime farmland across the Delta. The challenge? Whether the state can retain its ...

Local leaders and rural revitalization experts say Texas’ smallest towns can survive despite a shift to urban and suburban ...

The New York governor proposed a 40 percent cut in the already-approved toll pricing with the expectation that the toll will ramp up to the original $15 base toll over the course of several years.

A 2018 lawsuit claims the level of segregation in state schools violates students’ rights to integrated schools. But a new poll found that most voters don’t know anything about the lawsuit nor do they ...

The political landscape has shifted dramatically in Vermont. Nationally, the election showed that partisanship matters most ...

When people think about higher ed, they picture the Ivy League. But state officials are trained almost exclusively at their own state’s schools.

Washington is one of two states to implement a tax on carbon emissions. A measure on the 2024 ballot would have canceled this provision in its climate law. By a large margin, voters affirmed their ...