A shared insurance pool covering 24 counties faces a $25 million shortfall as rising legal claims force local governments to draw on reserves and consider cuts to essential services.

State universities are seeing their first enrollment increase since 2013, fueled in part by a surge in transfer students from community colleges benefiting from tuition-free policies.

A former U.S. diplomat will coordinate efforts to address decades of cross-border pollution as new estimates put the economic toll at up to $503.5 million annually.

As we saw in the 1990s, the best reforms do not begin in Washington. This year’s elections will produce a crop of new ...

Texas Republican lawmakers have spent several years eroding local control, especially in the state's largest Democratic-controlled cities such as Austin. Two years after Texas lawmakers enacted a ...

As Louisiana prepares for a $100 billion spaceport, Brownsville's transformation reveals the economic benefits and community ...

Pennsylvania is pushing to expand the use of artificial intelligence tools in government agencies, and local governments are set to follow suit. For local and state agencies, it’s a way to ease the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order next to a bust of former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in the Oval Office of the White House May 23, 2025, in Washington, D.C. President ...

There’s no simple answer. States and their local governments both have had a role in creating the problem, and both can have ...

Some flood barriers are prohibited under federal rules, while others fall into a regulatory gray area that leaves homeowners ...

As the agenda of an academic gathering in public budgeting and finance demonstrated, research is increasingly built for ...

As volunteer ranks decline and emergency services struggle to maintain staffing, the state is increasing annual tax credits from $200 to $800 for eligible firefighters and ambulance workers.