The federal legislation boosts Opportunity Zones in the competition for funding. Governors should choose neighborhoods that ...

Collectively, these trends present significant obstacles to states working to address the maintenance and repair of roads and ...

Cities and towns are rewriting zoning codes, but disagreements over local control and the state’s new housing mandate remain.

Tennessee, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Utah and Idaho are offering to host nuclear fuel and waste facilities in exchange for federal ...

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

Across the state of Montana, there have been wide gaps in the state’s wildfire smoke detection safety net. PurpleAirs in Schools — a Department of Environmental Quality program now in its third year — ...

From New Jersey to Houston, World Cup hosts are celebrating the experience. For Kansas City, the event could also fire up ...

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 ...

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

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

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