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 Trump administration is imposing stricter financial tests on Medicaid waivers, potentially limiting states’ ability to use them to expand services and try new approaches.

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

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

Mona Miyasato has been the Santa Barbara County executive officer, the top unelected official, since 2013. She’s retiring ...

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.

The governor made faster permitting and major investment central to his argument that government can get things done. Growing ...

State revenue officials have increased their estimates of what the tax on higher earners will generate, adding an unexpected ...