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Local governments are no longer as willing to take on the risky business of building a ballpark.
The government is building a nationwide network that helps first responders communicate better during emergencies. To succeed, most states must opt in.
The management paradigm could help rebuild our sense of community.
Budget cuts and political retaliation, they say, are endangering their jobs and their ability to uncover information.
Seattle offers a case study on whether cities can gain population without gaining traffic.
In broken communities, the focus should be on social capital -- not just the economy.
Its big and small, Democratic and Republican cities are going green. Other states want to know how.
More flexibility could make it easier to adopt industry-backed reforms. It could also let conservatives enact policies that Obama rejected.
The 2016 election may have opened the door for third parties. This is most apparent in Utah.
It's hard to tell who's in charge of what in American government these days.
In 1977, the GOP faced an identity crisis. It eventually found a winning formula and returned to power.
Several ban their employees from traveling to other states for work because of policies they deem discriminatory.
The city went almost a decade without a single corruption scandal. What's its secret?
Most U.S. cities abandoned it in the mid-20th century.
The state’s split legislature passed more than 400 bills, some of which address longstanding issues.
Many have gotten themselves into a fiscal squeeze paying bills they ran up decades ago. View data for dozens of cities.
Previous attempts to address the state's pension crisis haven't gone far enough. This time around, past, present and future employees could take a hit.
Curfew imposed for Houston after police arrested armed robbers hijacking vehicles.
Tweet from the California Highway Patrol of Oakland
Hurricane Harvey's winds and floodwaters have created emergencies at chemical facilities across the Houston area, from an Exxon Mobil roof collapse at its massive Baytown complex to the risk of an explosion at a chemical plant northeast of Houston.
The parallels between Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Katrina are stark. Look no further than the severe and destructive flooding that both storms have left along the Gulf Coast and the sheer number of evacuations due in part to a respective lack of preparation.
Democrats and Republicans in the Illinois Senate came together Tuesday to approve legislation revamping how state money is distributed to local schools, ensuring more of the state's education funding is steered toward poorer districts.
Chicago police Officer Marco Proano claimed he was just doing his job when he fired 16 shots at a stolen car filled with teenagers on the South Side, wounding two.
City officials in Houston imposed an overnight curfew to guard against opportunistic crimes as Tropical Storm Harvey continued to deluge southeast Texas on Tuesday, breaking the record for the most extreme rainfall on the U.S. mainland.
With Republican efforts to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act stalled, tentative bipartisan initiatives are in the works to shore up the fragile individual insurance market that serves roughly 17 million Americans.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday put on hold a lower court ruling that invalidated two of Texas' 36 congressional districts.
Gov. Matt Mead lamented the $100 million that Wyoming left on the table by choosing not to expand Medicaid, and he expressed concern for the state’s hospitals while discussing health care with the Star-Tribune recently.
Public officials and reporters alike adopt the myth that bigger is better. That’s not always the case.
The once-antiquated practice is making a comeback -- and saving states money. But it's not without hurdles.
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