The digital era is making its mark on local news. Nearly as many Americans today say they prefer to get their local news online as say they prefer to do so through the television set, according to a ...

The Pew-Knight Initiative supports new research on how Americans absorb civic information, form beliefs and identities, and engage in their communities. Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, ...

We highlight some of the best work from news outlets across the U.S. By David Leonhardt and Lyna Bentahar Many of this country’s biggest problems are devilishly hard to solve. The decline of local ...

Let’s face it: 2025 was so packed with big local news stories — the Karen Read retrial! The Trump immigration crackdown! The great Josh Kraft flameout! — that we could write 100 questions for our year ...

The top 5 stories of 2025 include Aimee Bock’s trial in the Feeding Our Future case, immigration, Minneapolis police reform and fraud.