City leaders plan to clear major camps before winter, but critics question whether enough shelter and housing exist to support the transition.

Lawmakers are expanding criminal laws to target cargo theft, gift-card fraud and other schemes that have become increasingly ...

Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Winter 2025 magazine. You can subscribe here. We don’t move state capitals around in this country very often, or at least we haven’t since the 19th ...

Lisa Marentette of Windsor, Canada, offering her verdict on the Gordie Howe International Bridge after crossing it on opening day Monday, ending the Ambassador Bridge's 97-year reign as the only span ...

The Colossus Water Recycling Plant will send treated wastewater to an xAI data center to use in cooling its servers, eliminating its need for 3 million gallons of water a day from Memphis drinking ...

Virginia job seekers now have a right to know what a position pays before applying online under a new state law aimed at ...

An aging network of century-old pipes is forcing the city to make difficult decisions about where limited replacement dollars ...

Both the states and the feds believe they need more control over the voting process. It’s a dispute that’s gone unresolved ...

On the Oregon/Idaho border, rural Americans’ access to care depends on which side of the river they happen to live.

As the city's economy rebounds, the mayor says expanding housing and lowering costs are critical to ensuring growth benefits ...

State and local governments have more power than they realize to keep older adults out of nursing homes. The tools are in the ...

Thousands of new private schools have opened as public funding expands, but many states have chosen a hands-off approach to ...