More than four years after the pandemic began dramatically changing downtown economies, recent information shows that cities are finally recovering from the effects of the widespread shift to remote ...

In April, the international North Pacific Fisheries Commission adopted an interim harvest strategy for Pacific saury, a small pelagic species and an important source of food for tuna, sharks, and ...

As extreme weather events become more intense and more common, states already face an estimated backlog of nearly $1 trillion for deferred maintenance and needed upgrades to public infrastructure. To ...

Effectively administering health care programs is a critical element of sound fiscal management for state and local governments. As health care and corrections have emerged in recent years as fiscal ...

As a global agreement to curb subsidies contributing to overfishing and illegal fishing inches toward entry into force, governments are now focusing on how they will implement the deal, including by ...

A growing number of states are considering reforms to allow residents to lower their housing costs by sharing homes, a shift that promises to boost the supply of rental housing and improve ...

Many of the estuaries in the United States were once much larger than previously known, a critical finding as policymakers work to protect and restore these ecosystems. Estuaries—where a freshwater ...

An estimated 60 million people live in the 10 countries that fringe the biodiversity-rich Western Indian Ocean (WIO), where they rely on a healthy marine environment for food security, livelihoods, ...

At a time when the U.S. housing shortage has caused home prices to soar, removing the barriers that prevent more manufactured housing from being built is vital. Improving access to these modern mobile ...

Stat: 4 million to 7 million: The United States has a shortage of 4 million to 7 million homes. Story: For many Indigenous communities, the concept of land or home ownership can stand in opposition to ...

In 2018, as one of the youngest members of the Washington state House of Representatives (she was 38 at the time), Kristine Reeves began advocating for ways to help her generation of Americans do what ...

Homebuyers who use land contracts—also known as "contracts for deed" or "land installment contracts"—are entitled to many of the same protections as those who buy with traditional mortgages, according ...