Independent redistricting and the state’s top-two primary were designed to curb partisan influence. In today’s more polarized ...

Oregon is among a growing number of states tightening oversight of healthcare deals. New research suggests those laws are ...

Traditional hazard plans remain important, but states and localities are adopting broader strategies that coordinate agencies, funding and investments before disasters strike.

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

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

When natural disasters hit rural areas, outside help can be slow to arrive, leaving state and local governments to tackle it ...

This year, control of the U.S. Senate could well run through the school boards, but with the politics of the last six years ...

As a new study shows, public works projects built by union labor deliver superior workforce supply, productivity and safety ...

The state is investing opioid settlement dollars in mobile methadone clinics designed to overcome the transportation barriers facing rural residents.

Falling birth rates and families leaving Baltimore are shrinking school enrollment, forcing difficult decisions about buildings that have long served as anchors of their neighborhoods.

The city replaced a cumbersome hiring process with a digital system that can get candidates into the police academy in less than two months.

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