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The state is tightening the rules for conducting election recounts, under legislation signed by Gov. Scott Walker Thursday.
More than a dozen Chicago high schools struggle to survive as enrollment plummets, performance falters.
Texas’ rolls of cash assistance recipients under its TANF program have steadily shrunk over the last two decades. Some experts say, the bureaucracy guarding the state’s safety net makes it difficult to access those benefits, even for Texans who fit the requirements.
State child support officials say they have struggles to get ride-hailing companies to comply with reporting requirements for new hires.
After the floods, they had to cope with ruined homes and struggle to access lifesaving medication.
It's called 'service design.' The idea is to combine behavioral science with a participatory approach to making public services work better.
In an age of angry populism, 'New Localism' is demonstrating how empowering them can bring transformative change.
These politicians and candidates are breaking with today's aggressively partisan times to advocate a more centrist line.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in a speech on Wednesday in which he signaled that the federal government will take a tougher stance on the issue than under the Obama administration.
Money Oklahoma state agencies spend on "swag" a year, according to the governor's office. But as her state faces a roughly $200 million budget hole, Gov. Mary Fallin signed an executive order last week that bans any more money going to promotional items like key chains, stress balls and T-shirts.
NJ Transit lost a quarter of its railroad managers in the two years prior to a fatal 2016 crash in Hoboken, according to a document the agency sent federal regulators.
Arizona Treasurer Jeff DeWit has been nominated to oversee the finances at NASA, the White House announced Wednesday.
Missouri residents will be able to board airplanes and enter federal installations using their current driver's licenses and identification cards following a decision by the federal government.
The top Republican and Democrat in the Wisconsin Assembly Tuesday vowed to ensure there would be no sexual harassment in their house but said they would always oppose releasing the results of investigations into such allegations.
The St. Anthony City Council, facing "threatened litigation," voted Tuesday night to pay Diamond Reynolds and her young daughter a $675,000 settlement in connection with the police shooting of Philando Castile.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions hinted Wednesday that the Justice Department may take a tougher stance on recreational marijuana in the near future, a change in policy that would have a significant impact on the five states plus the District of Columbia that already allow the drug to be used for more than medicinal purposes.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) is “seriously” considering the 2020 presidential race, according to confidants.
The region is coping with one of the biggest influxes of Puerto Ricans fleeing the hurricane-ravaged island.
Gov. Mary Fallin’s office estimates state agencies spend up to $58 million a year on monogrammed giveaways like key chains, pens and stress balls.
Photos and musings from our photographer David Kidd.
Deep within the Affordable Care Act is a tax break that could help a lot of budgets.
The technology certainly has benefits, but some say they could be outweighed by its drawbacks.
The way we talk about the issue makes it more difficult to do what needs to be done.
Program evaluation offices have yet to become common throughout government -- and where they do exist, many lawmakers don't know about them.
Record-breaking amount of money that California raised in its most recent auction for cap-and-trade permits, which companies are required to buy to release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The money is then used for projects and programs meant to reduce emissions.
Lyrics, which are accompanied by the names of two officers, from a song by rapper Jamal Knox that was used to convict him of threatening officers. The case has made its way to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, where Knox's lawyers claim the lyrics are protected by the First Amendment. Knox served time in prison for the offense.
State and local governments still haven't regained many of the jobs they cut, and they're unlikely to anytime soon.
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