The federal government shutdown is forcing a reckoning for two remote health care programs because they automatically expired Oct. 1. The telehealth and in-home hospital care programs were both tempor...

Lawmakers again weighed the system’s efficiency against the hundreds of millions of dollars it funnels to state and local governments.

Three judges will decide “as quickly as possible,” they said, whether to uphold a temporary order barring President Donald Trump from deploying Oregon National Guard troops to Portland. U.S. Circuit J...

North Dakota is offering an estimated 9,200 federal workers a lifeline through a loan program approved Wednesday to help military and other families affected by the government shutdown.

Five years after the pandemic upended attendance, many schools are still struggling to get kids to show up regularly.

The state Board of Economic Development approved two loans this week totaling $1.67 million from state government to businesses. The board met Wednesday and approved a $900,000 South Dakota Works…

The nation’s prison population grew for the second consecutive year in 2023, reversing more than a decade of steady decline.

States are doing what they generally do during a federal government shutdown: continuing to operate programs serving some of the neediest people. That means schools are still serving federally subsidi...

States are continuing to operate federally funded programs during the shutdown. But they say they can only front those costs for so long — and some are worried about getting repaid.

With hotter temperatures come more heat-related workplace injuries — about 28,000 injuries each year, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Environmental Health. Scientists have long warned of climate change-driven extreme heat and its dangers to health. Studies have shown extreme heat can cause fatigue, poorer coordination and reduced attention. Put together, […]

The nation’s prison population grew for the second consecutive year in 2023, reversing more than a decade of steady decline.

Illegal street takeovers, where drivers block roads to perform stunts, have become an increasing concern in cities across the country.

Friday’s jobs report is missing in action because of the federal shutdown, but economists are finding other ways of measuring apparent job losses concentrated in Midwestern states and oil country. Une...

An estimated 1.4 million immigrants who are in the country legally but are not citizens stand to lose their government-subsidized health care coverage under the sweeping tax and spending bill Presiden...

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on Tuesday in a case that could reverse or solidify state laws across the country that ban conversion therapy, a controversial counseling…

With hotter temperatures come more heat-related workplace injuries — about 28,000 injuries each year, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Environmental Health.

With hotter temperatures come more heat-related workplace injuries — about 28,000 injuries each year, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Environmental Health. Scientists have lon...

The nation’s prison population grew for the second consecutive year in 2023, reversing more than a decade of steady decline.

As a middle-school student in 1980s Philadelphia, Shelley Hunter remembers getting to and from school pretty easily thanks to the city’s public transit service, SEPTA, which had bus and train routes…

A majority of children in the United States rely on Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program at some point by their 18th birthday, and many experience periods of coverage loss, according…

A pathway has opened for an industry of small-car, ride-hailing and private transport services to ferry children to and from school.

America’s prison population is growing older at a pace that some experts say is unsustainable.