suburbs

Parents and educators rally at Boston City Hall demanding urgent action to improve the city’s public schools. Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images by...

Teachers often work well in excess of 40 hours per week. 10'000 Hours/DigitalVision via Getty Images by Lesley Lavery, Macalester College and Steve Friess, University...

by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Hunter College Public transit systems face daunting challenges across the U.S., from pandemic ridership losses to traffic congestion, fare evasion and...

Indianapolis debuted a bus rapid transit system with 60-foot articulated electric buses in 2019. Momoneymoproblemz/Wikipedia, CC BY-SA by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Hunter College Public transit in the...

“Execution.” “Ambush.” “Planned, calculated, brutal.” Those were the words Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala used as he stood in a Wilkinsburg yard where hours...

WILKINSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Two gunmen working as a team fatally shot five people including a pregnant woman and critically wounded two others at...

 At 4:35 a.m. each weekday, Stan Paul drives out of his Southern California suburb with 10 passengers in a van, headed to his job...

DETROIT (AP) _ Whites are moving back to the American city that came to epitomize White flight, even as Blacks continue to leave for...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The federal government's withering report on the Ferguson Police Department issued a stern mandate to city leaders: Reform your law-enforcement...

MONROEVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Local and federal law enforcement officials are continuing to investigate after 46 pounds of cocaine worth about $10.5 million was seized and three men were arrested in searches that began with surveillance of a suburban Pittsburgh hotel.