PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A proposal to create a historic preservation district in a hilltop neighborhood of Portland will get a second consideration by the city council after a majority voted down...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota lawmakers on Tuesday heard a proposal that would construct a “land bridge” to reconnect a historically Black St. Paul neighborhood that was devastated in the 1960s to...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Portland City Council will hold a public meeting Monday and potentially vote on a proposal to create a new historic district covering nearly half of Munjoy Hill....

PHOENIX (AP) — A home in a historic Phoenix neighborhood was left vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti.

AZFamily.com reported Sunday that neighbors in the Willo district gathered to help...

DETROIT (AP) — A member of Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan’s team who worked in housing, planning and development and helped spearhead neighborhood revitalization has been appointed to the...

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois has collected $62 million from legalized marijuana sales that's earmarked for helping minority businesses and neighborhood development, but the money hasn't been spent yet,...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Star is removing references to its founder and first publisher from its pages and website because of his role in supporting segregationist policies in the...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Residents of a historic area of Lawrence want to ditch their neighborhood's name because it honors a slave owner.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the Pinckney...

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — The apartment building that serves as the namesake for the Crystal City neighborhood in Virginia where Amazon is building a second quarters has been purchased by an...

CHARLESTOWN, Ind. (AP) — After a years-long legal battle, the City of Charlestown and its board of public works settled with a residential association whose members alleged that the city had...

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona civil rights leader Calvin C. Goode, who spent more than two decades on the Phoenix City Council fighting to improve the low-income Black neighborhoods he represented, died...

Pennsylvania’s plan to upgrade a major road along the city of Erie’s waterfront will wind up reducing pedestrian and cyclist access to the bay and disproportionately harm minority and low-income...

BOSTON (AP) — A Boston building named in honor of 19th-century abolitionist Harriet Tubman that for years served as the home to a neighborhood services organization has been demolished to make way...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — City officials in Santa Fe have approved new restrictions for short-term rental owners who offer rooms and homes as vacation lodging in an effort to curtail the number of...

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and Oregon Health Authority are looking into elevated levels of dioxins, a group of toxic chemical compounds, in soil samples...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Portland City Council will discuss whether to make parts of a neighborhood that overlooks the bay a historic district.

CHICAGO (AP) — A scrap shredder with a history of pollution problems has agreed to pay an $18,000 fine and make improvements intended to prevent explosions and stop metallic pollution from...

DETROIT (AP) — The city of Detroit is developing a transportation plan to make it easier and safer for residents to walk, bike, drive or ride along city streets.

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — An undeveloped ball field in Everett’s Port Gardner neighborhood will remain that way after the city council voted to reject a planned housing development for students and...

WABASH, Ind. (AP) — A preservation group plans to renovate the exteriors of six run-down homes in a northern Indiana city and put them on the market next year in hopes of spurring a historic...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officials are planning service cuts that could reach $225 million and impact the entire transit system.

CHICAGO (AP) — A plan to protect housing options for low-income residents living near the planned Obama Presidential Center was approved Wednesday by the Chicago City Council.

SEATTLE (AP) — At least three people were arrested in two separate demonstrations in Seattle Wednesday night.

The Seattle Times reports that protesters broke windows at three businesses in...

BOSTON (AP) — A Boston social services organization named in honor of 19th-century abolitionist Harriet Tubman that's been the center of a redevelopment dispute was vandalized with graffiti,...

DETROIT (AP) — Work has started on a new affordable housing development in Detroit that's set to open next spring.

The 22,845-square-foot (2,122-square-meter), four-story Milwaukee Junction...

HONOLULU (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers released a revised flood protection plan for Honolulu neighborhoods that includes fewer impacts on natural streams and residential properties within the...

DETROIT (AP) — An abandoned multifamily building in southwest Detroit is being renovated into a dozen modern housing units as part of Mayor Mike Duggan’s plan to improve city...

PARIS (AP) — Paris police are investigating accusations by 26 women that a street artist in the historic Montmartre neighborhood raped or sexually assaulted them, in what their lawyers describe as...

DETROIT (AP) — Access to technology, and internet and digital literacy resources in Detroit are expected to increase through investments made from an annual golf event.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A neighborhood association near the University of Arizona hopes to stop any future sale of farmland used for agricultural research.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Homeowners in one New Orleans neighborhood have completed 50 projects designed to let stormwater filter into the ground rather than pouring into storm drains. That’s about...

DENVER (AP) — A Denver neighborhood is on track to change its name, possibly ending a decades-long debate over its association with a former mayor known for his Ku Klux Klan...

DETROIT (AP) — Efforts to improve public spaces in Detroit are being bolstered by just over $1 million in new investment and an additional three-year commitment through a national...

BLACK HAWK, S.D. (AP) — Residents of a Black Hawk neighborhood where a sinkhole has exposed an abandoned mine endangering their properties have filed a $75.5 million lawsuit claiming government...

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s mayor halted a demolition planned at a coal plant amid concern that another dust cloud could cover parts of a neighborhood as it did after an implosion at the site in...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A black delivery driver says he was overcome with emotion while recording himself and a black co-worker being blocked into a gated Oklahoma City neighborhood for more than an...