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To help cover Illinois' unpaid bills in the midst of a budget stalemate, Gov. Bruce Rauner is turning to an obscure state agency usually occupied with arranging loans to farms, towns and hospitals.
President Barack Obama has signed an executive order to create a second emergency board to investigate the dispute between New Jersey Transit and its labor unions.
In California, some gun smugglers use FedEx. In Chicago, smugglers drive just across the state line into Indiana, buy a gun and drive back. In Orlando, Fla., smugglers have been known to fill a $500 car with guns and send it on a ship to crime rings in Puerto Rico.
Sales for most tickets, including instant games and Powerball, declined about $21 million — with October sales at roughly $215 million compared to September's approximately $236 million.
Recruiting a new generation and coping with tech changes are key challenges, says CIO Anne Roest.
A new Business Atlas tool combines multiple data sets to provide sophisticated market research for potential employers.
To address the underlying issues that led to the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., local leaders are expanding the traditional role of public health departments.
City governments face increased demand to “do engagement,” without the corresponding investment in capacity.
Gov. Bruce Rauner ends the tax break for firms that add jobs in one place, but cut them elsewhere.
Two registered sex offenders are suing California, saying the state's online sex offender registry prompted vigilantes to attack them.
Bill Walker will get rid of the office's director and one associate director.
Jim Kenney announced Wednesday that First Deputy Commissioner Richard Ross is his choice to run the department.
Daily fantasy sports sites have been operating on shaky legal ground in about a dozen states.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Airbnb has been defiant and defensive in its dealings with cities like San Francisco that want to restrain vacation rentals in homes. It has organized hosts to lobby for looser laws, unleashed attack campaigns against opponents and indulged in scare tactics and snark in its advertising.
Low-wage state workers -- from lifeguards to groundskeepers, cleaning staff to office assistants -- are getting a raise.
For decades, but increasingly in recent years, state lawmakers have been pushing for a convention to add amendments to the U.S. Constitution, only to run into opposition from groups warning that such a meeting could devolve into the wholesale rewriting of the nation's charter.
The state hasn't declared victory in the war against veteran homelessness, but officials say they have won a key battle.
After a rough and highly personal debate in the Louisiana governor’s race on Tuesday night, all eyes in the Senate are on David Vitter.
Smoking would be prohibited in public housing homes nationwide under a proposed federal rule to be announced on Thursday, a move that would affect nearly one million households and open the latest front in the long-running campaign to curb unwanted exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke.
Oregonians have volunteered for the state’s experiment with a road usage tax, which could replace the per-gallon gas tax someday.
With voters almost perfectly segmented _ roughly a third Republican, a third Democratic and a third unaffiliated _ neither party starts with any real advantage in Colorado, reflecting a presidential contest more wide open than any since the 2000 election ended in a near-tie.
the debate in Washington may have devolved into a typical Beltway scrum about giving the president what he wants or asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop him. But in places such as the state capitol in Providence, R.I., and Olympia, Wash., and Sacramento, Calif., state officials already are deploying strategies that could slow some of the impact of climate change.
Nashville's former mayor led his city as a single, networked entity. His approach is paying off.
Looking to curb violence, city leaders are charting a path for incarcerated people to successfully re-enter society.
One of Gov. Bill Walker's deputy chiefs of staff, Marcia Davis, was secretary, Your Future Alaska, that spent $50,000 on Walker's behalf without directly coordinating with his campaign. Last week the Alaska Public Offices Commission, filed a formal complaint, alleging the group hid the identities of Walker's supporters and failed to file required reports on time.
Nonprofits have discovered a hidden cost in preventative social programs that's keeping many from even trying to start one.
The state attorney general, Kathleen Kane ,was held for trial on the felony count after a preliminary hearing before Magisterial District Judge Cathleen Kelly Rebar.
Automatic and online voter registration have proven to increase voter rolls and save money, yet many states are still using paper.
The numbers have improved, but they need to be a lot better. It's about organizational success.
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