Banking woes send consumers looking for safer alternatives, some Indiana communities resist a dollar chain store "invasion," and a permit to build an oil pipeline tunnel under the Great Lakes is postponed.

Nashville mourns six dead in the latest mass shooting, the EPA takes public input on a proposal to clean up Pennsylvania's drinking water, and find ways to get more Zzz's during Sleep Awareness Month.

Mobilizing Georgia voters in a non-election year is crucial for voting rights groups, Philadelphians over 50 will play a major role in the mayoral primary, and the EPA is finalizing a new air quality rule.

Georgia prepares for the end of COVID-19 emergency; comment period open for experimental nuclear tech in eastern ID; Mexican gray wolf population rebounds in Arizona.

A proposed flavored tobacco ban is back on the table in Minnesota, Trump attorney Evan Corcoran must testify in the documents probe, and a "clean slate" bill in Missouri would make "expungement" automatic.

An Arizona election official is pessimistic about democracy's future, Georgia will spend millions to expand broadband, and a symposium brings hip hop culture scholarship to North Carolina college campuses.

Texas lawmakers consider legislation to prevent cities from self-governance, Connecticut considers policy options to alleviate an eviction crisis, and Ohio residents await community water systems.

Polls support changes to high-stakes testing for Massachusetts students, a grant boosts student parents at a Montana Tribal College, and a Kentucky bill to nullify federal gun laws heads to governor's desk.

Educators say Georgia's proposed teacher pay hikes need more work, bills in Montana could improve elk hunting, and a Tennessee group heads to the state capitol to press lawmakers on education reform.

A Florida group works to keep eligible people on Medicaid, proposed legislation creates supply-chain transparency in New York state; Nurses are concerned about the closure of a Portland-area birth center that could go forward on Friday.