News
When they're given the metrics, the tools and the chance to contribute, they can work wonders. Denver is showing the way.
With more and more people using them to get where they need to go, reclaimed railways and industrial corridors are connecting neighborhoods rather than dividing them.
A lot of entrepreneurs don't understand that government's support is critical to many of the innovations they rely on.
Governing Institute and Build America Mutual recently produced a bond issuance guide.
Building out digital infrastructure raises a host of complex questions, from avoiding obsolescence to sorting through funding options.
Ohio Supreme Court Justice William O'Neill, who is also running for governor, referring to his two daughters and two sisters who were upset that he boasted on Facebook about having sex with 50 "very attractive women" and decried media "hysteria" over the sexual harassment and assault claims against U.S. Sen. Al Franken and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore.
"Most local governments are run by white men, so there hasn’t needed to be a conversation about what diversity looks like."
Proposed cost of podcasts -- which are free to the public -- for prisoners in Indiana. The tablets they would use to download them, though, would be supplied free of charge to the state.
Employment totals and numbers of officers for city police departments.
Every day, Mike Thompson hears a new story about how last month's fires in Northern California have affected people's lives. Insurance is being denied. Tourism is down. Some companies have laid off workers.
Detention centers to house prisoners for deportation have become a new battleground for states and cities seeking to resist the Trump administration’s push to deport more immigrants.
Admitting he was wrong, William M. O'Neill wrote Sunday morning of going to church to "get right with God."
Stephen Bittel's rocky tenure as Florida Democratic Party chairman ended in disgrace Friday after he said he would resign following accusations from women that he leered at them, made suggestive comments and created an unprofessional work environment.
The lights remain off in bustling cities and in small rural villages. Gas generators, the only alternative to the downed power lines that seem to be everywhere, continuously hum outside hospitals and bodegas. When night falls, it's the glow of car lights, not streetlights, that helps break through the darkness.
When state Rep. Wes Goodman resigned this week after being confronted about a sexual interaction in his office involving a man, multiple Statehouse observers said some version of the same thing: This isn't everything.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office was cast into the national maelstrom surrounding sexual harassment allegations after an Erie County woman accused the governor's office in a lawsuit of ignoring her complaints about Sam Hoyt, a former administration official.
LaToya Cantrell soared past Desiree Charbonnet on Saturday to become the first female mayor of New Orleans, winning in a landslide after a hard-fought race that pitted the city's political establishment against grass-roots organizing and turned long-standing political traditions on their head.
Tax credits that New Jersey is offering the candy company Mars Wrigley Confectionery to locate its new headquarters in Newark.
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, who in 2015 was the first AG to sue a pharmaceutical drug company for their role in the opioid epidemic. Since then, more than 100 states, cities and counties have filed similar lawsuits. If they win, Hood predicts the industry would owe trillions of dollars in damages.
There will be no cannabis cappuccinos or drone deliveries in California under the new pot rules state officials released Thursday that regulate everything from who can legally sell and deliver marijuana to how it must be packaged and transported.
Wichita is going from its first African-American fire chief to its first female fire chief.
Commissioners in Montgomery County say they will restrict funding to a rural volunteer fire department that for months has refused to take down the Confederate flag that waves over it.
Roy Moore won a reprieve in his struggle to survive as a U.S. Senate candidate Thursday when the Alabama Republican Party affirmed it would continue backing him despite allegations that he sexually assaulted teenagers.
Cook County prosecutors dropped all charges Thursday against 15 men who alleged they were framed by corrupt former Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts and his crew.
A special session of the Montana Legislature called to address a budget shortfall adjourned early Thursday morning with a deal that leaves all parties less than satisfied but pleased something was negotiated.
Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy introduced a bipartisan bill Thursday they say will improve the federal background check system that allowed the Sutherland Springs shooter to purchase guns, despite his criminal record.
For decades, Southern California has waged a slow but successful war on smog. Through vehicle emissions rules, clean-fuel standards and other tough measures, officials have lifted the choking pall of air pollution that once shrouded Los Angeles, bringing clearer skies and healthier lungs.
A total of 210,000 gallons of oil leaked Thursday from the Keystone pipeline in South Dakota, the pipeline's operator, TransCanada, said.
It's been almost two months since Congress let what's historically been a bipartisan program expire.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Most Read
