Crystal River, Minn., is a freshly incorporated city that lacks money for services and infrastructure. A lobbyist would help ...

Some programmers and engineers are willing to forego private-sector pay to find meaningful work. But governments need to be more nimble about hiring.

Cities across the country are committed to making it easier to build housing and are taking a variety of promising approaches, note the leaders of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. But they must be ...

The Department of Education denied an application from a cyber charter school that would have been part of a multistate network. Classes would have been led by AI tutors with humans serving as “guides ...

Residents of red counties in blue states wish they had a new political home. Also, in Florida, the Legislature is starting to stand up to Ron DeSantis.

A 10-mile park running underneath a rail transit line in Miami-Dade County is expected to be complete next year. The county’s ...

The administration rescinded its order for a spending review due to blowback. Republicans had not joined the chorus of critics, even though red states are heavily dependent on federal grants.

The White House ordered a pause on all federal grants, partly intending to target diversity, equity and inclusion and other "woke" programs. A third of states' budgets comes from federal grants.

The education committees in both the House and Senate approved a $450 million bill, a top priority for Gov. Bill Lee. Legislators are expected to pass it quickly during a special session this week.

The Trump White House has ordered a pause on infrastructure spending approved during the last administration, and is ...

Jay Inslee called for a 1 percent tax on residents who possess global wealth of $100 million. Here’s one of the more striking ...

Finding ways to support teaching as a career, including training, innovation and community engagement, helped a Chicago-area ...