California is considering stiff penalties for hospitals and other providers that exceed spending targets, putting an emerging ...

New York is shifting much of its rising SNAP costs to counties, which could face more than $1 billion in added costs and ...

State reserves are falling for the first time since the Great Recession, and local governments are drawing down their own ...

The cost of developing a subsidized apartment has nearly doubled to $540,000, but a decades-old public records exemption ...

Homelessness declined across more than half of California communities, according to new data. Officials credit state ...

A $7 million state program is helping cities and counties defend against mounting cyber threats, but its one-time funding is ...

The Orange County District Attorney’s office in Southern California will host a buyback event in September where e-bikes, e-motorcycles, e-scooters and pocket bikes can be exchanged for gift cards ...

Concerns about environmental impacts from data centers have dovetailed with a broader backlash to AI. Dozens of jurisdictions ...

Texas has one of the nation’s most extensive water-planning systems. Corpus Christi’s close call shows how quickly drought ...

By hitting struggling property owners with additional taxes, cities are penalizing them for vacancies that their own policies ...

Healthcare providers in Texas say the Rural Health Transformation Program provides much-needed funding. But they worry about ...

There have been some promising reforms to occupational licensing, but too many states still erect barriers that don’t reflect ...