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House panel considers allowing taller buildings in D.C.
As more oil flows by rail, concerns grow about safety of tank cars
Washington, D.C., Mayor Vincent C. Gray, announcing that he will seek a second term, despite still being under investigation for possible fundraising violations during his last campaign.
Average increase in public appropriations for higher education in the 2013-14 school year.
Pinellas County’s chief elections official firmly put Gov. Rick Scott on notice Monday: She will refuse his administration’s order and will continue to urge voters to drop off their absentee ballots at satellite locations.
Rather than push children out of school, districts are now doing the opposite: choosing to keep lawbreaking students in school, away from trouble on the streets, and offering them counseling and other assistance aimed at changing behavior.
D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray on Monday announced that he will seek a second term, bringing a sudden end to months of uncertainty over whether corruption surrounding his last campaign would keep him from running for reelection.
The largest-ever municipal bankruptcy petition in U.S. history faces a watershed moment on Tuesday, as the judge overseeing Detroit's bankruptcy case is scheduled to rule whether the city is eligible for protection from creditors - an event that has citizens, public officials, creditors, retirees and others awaiting the judge's words and preparing responses.
Bradley B. Cavedo, chief judge at the Richmond Circuit Court, has recused himself from heading the special court that will oversee the recount in the attorney general’s race.
The Supreme Court won't referee the fight between states and online retailers over taxing Internet sales, leaving states free to tax remote sellers and increasing pressure on Congress to resolve the long-running dispute.
Many states aren't spending millions of dollars the federal government set aside to help struggling homeowners.
A preliminary survey by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities finds 37 states boosted fiscal year 2014 support for public four-year institutions. View data for each state.
Based on the experiences of states that expanded Medicaid in recent years, predicting costs and needs of the newly covered population will be tough, according to a new report.
The state of Michigan runs Detroit, but the mayor-elect is asking for a role in leading the city out of bankrup
The proposal would prohibit tobacco at all public colleges in Georgia.
In several states, and in one city election, a very old party is bridging contemporary partisan divides.
Oscar Goodman spent 13 years as mayor of Las Vegas. Then his wife followed him. She's become a force in her own right.
Kevyn Orr, emergency manager of the city of Detroit, explaining how he would characterize the pension rights of a retiree or city worker.
Amount that U.S. shoppers spent in stores on Black Friday, down 13.2 percent from last year.
The Virginia Department of Taxation, after consulting with Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II’s office, has ruled that the state will not conform to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service’s new tax treatment of same-sex married couples because state law and a state constitutional amendment prohibit recognition of gay marriage.
Even as the number of states legalizing same-sex marriage will soon grow to 16, most states — like Mississippi — refuse to recognize such unions or to help dissolve them.
As the Department of Education prepares to release another batch of evaluation results Monday under the state’s new job review process, local school boards and state officials are still struggling to improve a system that judges as many as two-thirds of the state’s teachers on the test scores of students they’ve never met or on subjects they don’t teach.
Compostable plates are but the first initiative on the environmental checklist of the Urban School Food Alliance, a pioneering attempt by six big-city school systems to create new markets for sustainable food and lunchroom supplies.
A commuter train heading into the city derailed in the Bronx on Sunday, killing four people and injuring more than 60 as rail cars tumbled to within inches of the Hudson and Harlem rivers.
Insurers and some states are continuing to look for ways to bypass the balky technology underpinning the health-care law despite the Obama administration's claim Sunday that it had made "dramatic progress" in fixing the federal insurance website
Today's turbulent environment of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity means new challenges for government managers and policymakers. There are ways to cope with them.
A few big cities are adequately funding health care for their current and future retirees. The rest face distasteful choices.
This social media tool is being embraced by governments far and wide. A new report offers guidance on what it can do and how to make it work.
Despite industrial decline, population loss and low income levels, Worcester, Mass., has set the standard for financial management and employee cost control.
San Rafael, Calif., has banned smoking in any housing unit that shares a wall with another residence. That applies to owners and renters alike.
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