States will be scrambling to respond to new priorities and demands from Washington, to tighten their belts in a tough budget ...

Billions of dollars are at stake. With new federal rules, it’s up to state lawmakers to ensure that programs like food stamps ...

It could signal major changes in compliance, grants and oversight for state and local governments. That’s happened in the ...

The White House offered few details Wednesday on what Congress can expect from planned legislative recommendations for a ...

A national repository of personal information the federal government is seeking poses serious dangers. Americans should be ...

A Montgomery County office — which one county commissioner described as a far less controversial version of Elon Musk's ...

With tailored, evidence-based policies, the U.S. can relieve the burden on local and municipal governments, communities, and ...

A century of increasingly restrictive zoning has priced out lower-cost housing, and new limits on how homes are used risk ...

Progress is slow and uneven a year after the Eaton Fire. The wealthy and the well-insured are faring the best.

An investigation has revealed that many of these deaths — whether the result of withdrawal, chronic medical conditions or ...

This isn’t the first time the president has threatened to invoke the act giving him broad power to deploy the military on U.S ...

Thirty-six states will hold gubernatorial elections this year, with at least 21 incumbents term-limited or not running for ...