Tod Simons, the Democrat running to represent parts of the City of Oswego and surrounding rural areas, recently retired after ...

Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Spring 2025 magazine. You can subscribe here. California high-speed rail is five years late, three times over budget, and nowhere close to being ...

Streetcar lines began to stretch out from the booming manufacturing city of Springfield, Ma., reaching once rural areas and turning them into suburbs, such as Longmeadow, where a line was built in ...

About one-third of states enacted major housing reforms in 2026, easing zoning restrictions, parking requirements and ...

Dozens of ballot measures seek to stop, slow or permit data center expansion in local communities.

Proposals to pipe Missouri River water to drought-prone Western states are raising concerns downstream, opening another front ...

Washington has the most generous grace period, accepting mail ballots until Nov. 23. As postal service cuts have created ...

A proposed law would restrict dog breeding, shorten shelter holding periods and expand sterilization authority as the city ...

A Democratic Congress would try to unravel many of President Donald Trump’s moves to change the balance of governmental power ...

Since January, at least 20 of the nation’s 25 most populous cities have reported budget gaps for fiscal year 2026. Since January, at least 20 of the nation’s 25 most populous cities have reported ...

The National League of Cities’ (NLC) 40th annual City Fiscal Conditions report carries a message that sounds reassuring: Cities are adapting. After years of pandemic-era spending, budgets are ...

Democratic victories in several key Pennsylvania races could be enough to flip control of the House. The stakes are high, but ...