The city’s first-in-the-nation “Safe Stores are Staffed Stores” ordinance requires major retailers to hire more employees and limit self-checkout, drawing praise from unions and pushback from grocers.

Broadview, Illinois, Mayor Katrina Thompson in her office at Village Hall on Oct. 9, 2025. She is in her third term as mayor.

The police department in Columbus, Ohio, has overhauled its management structure and the way it seeks to disrupt violence, ...

Ohio’s Medicaid portal. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that more than 9 million people could lose health coverage ...

A homeless encampment near downtown Anchorage, Alaska, on Nov. 21, 2023. A five-year-old Anchorage program called Home for Good, utilizing well-evidenced strategies, has achieved striking results.