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The Virginia city took down statues of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, toppling symbols that were at the center of the deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017.

Atlanta's mayor wants to convince businesses that the city is a regional leader on climate change initiatives. But, in a city whose efforts are contradicted by its state, how much can the mayor do?

Kurdish forces have taken back the Iraqi city of Sinjar, after over 15 months of Islamic State occupation. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Kesling about the situation.

New Orleans has a trash problem. It's so bad, the city's mayor calls it a "crisis." Residents have even taken to the streets to complain.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that state employees have until Labor Day to get vaccinated. New York, like other states, has seen a rising number of coronavirus cases linked to the Delta variant.

Missiles struck cities all across Ukraine overnight, including in the western city of Lviv, where at least 7 people were killed. The town had been relatively peaceful for weeks.

The vast marshes of the Mississippi Delta that help protect New Orleans from hurricane storm surges have been weakened by ship channels and flood controls. But some say both the city's shipping port and the marshland can be saved, if it's done right.

As many as 1,000 or more people were in the theater and its shelter Wednesday at the time of the Russian airstrike, officials said.

Bloomington City Council member Mollie Ward, who represents west Bloomington, proposed the gun violence commission over a year ago. There was some discussion then, but the plan ultimately went nowhere. Ward has brought it back.

Refugee resettlement has been a divisive issue nationwide, and in Rutland, Vt., a city of 16,000 that was planning to take in 100 Syrian refugees this year, it may have cost the pro-refugee mayor his job.