After serving with the department for nearly two decades, Friday was Naples’ final day on the job. Shelly Carter has been ...

Former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin received a lasting tribute to her legacy this week as the city renamed both a major ...

The Daily Tar Heel’s Eva Edwards spoke with Chapel Hill’s first female mayor, Rosemary Waldorf, about her time serving the Town from 1995 to 2001. This interview has been edited for brevity ...

GULFPORT, Fla. - This Women's History Month, the City of Gulfport has a lot to celebrate. It will soon make history as having Florida's first ever all-women city council. The city will also have a ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s link to controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is coming under scrutiny as he makes a bid to become New Jersey’s next governor. Farrakhan, 91 ...

Carole Keeton, Austin's first woman mayor and the state's first female comptroller, died on Wednesday, March 26. She was 85. Keeton died peacefully in her sleep surrounded by family at her home ...

Former U.S. Rep. Mia Love of Utah, a daughter of Haitian immigrants who became the first Black Republican woman elected to ...

Kansas City Council voted unanimously to fire city manager Brian Platt, who was suspended three weeks ago after the city lost ...

WUSF is honoring Women's History Month by speaking to people who've impacted the community. After nearly a decade on the Tampa City Council, Sandra Freedman became the first woman to chair it in 1983.

Skokie Mayor George Van Dusen was ... has introduced the Defining Male and Female Act. “This legislation codifies President Donald Trump’s executive order defining ‘male’ and ‘female ...

It’s the steady, determined beat of Jeannie Sandoval —its first female mayor, whose leadership is more than just a historical ...