Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here.Covid-19 cases in New York City have trended upward this summer, as vaccine uptake remains low and testing and surveillance systems have been significantly sca…

Chicago voters will — for the first time — elect school board members this Nov. 5. After decades of advocacy and several twists and turns, candidates have filed to run, even as open questions remain around ballot access, voter eligibility, and member c…

Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system.“Don’t forget to count,” Matthew Hill, a percussion teacher at Newark’s AileyCamp said as he used his bare hands to thump a djembe, a West African drum. Tap,…

Public health, explained. Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here.Arif Ullah walked down Bruckner Boulevard under a scorching July sun. There was little shade on the street, a congested stretch of the South Bronx that leads i…

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here.In early 2020, six months into my first full-time reporting job, Covid-19 tore across the United States. A journalist for the Hartford Courant in Connecticut, …

Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan gathered with elected officials Monday to sign a lower citywide speed limit into law.

The task force is expected to dig deeper into the Secret Service’s plans to protect Trump ahead of his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and how exactly a gunman was able to open fire.

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here.Six people who work at a poultry farm in northeastern Colorado have tested positive for the bird flu, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday…

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here.With the Environmental Protection Agency’s latest — and strictest — plan to minimize the risk of Americans drinking lead-contaminated water on the horizon, the deba…

Nearly 80% of New Yorkers are optimistic about the future, though 90% worry about politics and global issues, according to a June Siena College poll.