McKee is expected to formally launch his run for reelection in March. His speech offered outlines of some possible campaign talking points.

Days after Gov. Maura Healey publicly signaled openness to changing the state’s decades-old right to shelter law, Republican state lawmakers Tuesday offered a round of reforms aimed at tightening the state’s response to an influx of migrants, setting up a potential political struggle over how to proceed.

As New Orleans prepares to host the Super Bowl next month, Louisiana authorities cleared homeless encampments around the stadium Wednesday and relocated many to a temporary warehouse facility that costs millions of dollars to operate.

Letters to the editor on the homelessness crisis, the Equal Rights Amendment and potential cuts to social security and medicare.

Some advocates predict “brutal, fast change” if the president-elect makes good on his talk of reducing federal spending.

The annual speech to lawmakers at the Capitol is an outline of Gov. Katie Hobbs' policy goals for the year ahead.