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When it comes to building a top-flight workforce, getting branding right is just as important in the public sector as it is in business.
The Find Me 911 Coalition is pushing the FCC to craft stricter regulations to better pinpoint the location of emergency calls made from mobile devices.
The four biggest issues facing government employers and employees this year and how they impacted public servants.
What's the difference between a good health exchange system and a bad one?
Gov. Sam Brownback is using cash assistance to support a youth reading program as a way to reduce out-of-wedlock teen births.
Berkeley making the rounds to save its historic post office.
In a first, majority of California voters back marijuana legalization.
N.J. governor won't sign multistate coalition on air quality.
Rate by which violent crime fell in Los Angeles from 2002 to 2009, the time when William Bratton, NYPD's new commissioner, led the city's police force.
U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster of Pennsylvania, announcing plans to introduce a bill to prohibit cell phones for any type of voice communication during commercial airline flights.
When adjusting for inflation, state spending and revenue are both below their pre-recession peaks.
Most public-sector IT projects use cumbersome, outdated methods. Some could benefit from a faster moving approach that prizes speed and flexibility.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas called for the county to take a greater oversight role over the Sheriff’s Department in the wake of Monday’s indictment of 18 former and current deputies on charges of abusing inmates and jail visitors.
Since June 2010, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has given more than 250,000 such notes, titled Subway Delay Verification, to riders, determining whether their trains had in fact come in behind schedule, or if, perhaps, the agency had been unjustly scapegoated by a harried commuter.
A USA TODAY investigation, published jointly with The Star on Sunday, revealed that at least 25 local police agencies in the U.S. have contracts with Melbourne, Fla.-based Harris Corp. for Stingrays.
The Patrick administration has issued final amendments to a regulation it says will reduce up to 90 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution from power plants across nine New England and mid-Atlantic states during the next six years.
Fourteen states and the District of Columbia told the federal government they could run their own health insurance exchanges, but three people leading their states’ exchanges have now left following problem-plagued rollouts of the online marketplaces.
Gov. John Kitzhaber announced at a news conference Monday morning that he'll run for re-election in 2014, seeking an unprecedented fourth term.
Cities where most residents walk to work, with detailed data for 300 jurisdictions.
The newly proposed legislation comes as federal regulators consider lifting restrictions on the devices.
Detroit ruling opens door to pension cuts across the nation
New York City's new police chief, who previously led the force under Rudy Giuliani, is a controversial choice. But to understand why Bill de Blasio picked him, look at what Bratton accomplished in Los Angeles.
Michelle Flynn, associate executive director of The Road Home, a Utah nonprofit that serves the homeless, on Salt Lake City's efforts to eliminate chronic veteran homelessness. By the end of this month, the city will have zero chronically homeless veterans.
Number of applications Walmart received for about 800 positions at its two new stores in Washington, D.C.
The dispute centers over who is responsible for funding and managing security at "exit lanes."
A new federal law increasing oversight of pharmacies came in response to a deadly fungal meningitis. But it creates a voluntary system, leaving states mostly free to continue operating as before.
In a battle that pits the East Coast against the Midwest over the winds that carry dirty air from coal plants, the governors of eight Northeastern states plan to petition the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to force tighter air pollution regulations on nine Rust Belt and Appalachian states.
Increasingly, the burden of treating chronic alcohol and drug users has fallen on local sheriffs, police and hospital ERs, which are ill-equipped to provide counseling or long-term treatment.
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