Crystal River, Minn., is a freshly incorporated city that lacks money for services and infrastructure. A lobbyist would help ...

Cities across the country are committed to making it easier to build housing and are taking a variety of promising approaches, note the leaders of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. But they must be ...

The Department of Education denied an application from a cyber charter school that would have been part of a multistate network. Classes would have been led by AI tutors with humans serving as “guides ...

Residents of red counties in blue states wish they had a new political home. Also, in Florida, the Legislature is starting to stand up to Ron DeSantis.

The administration rescinded its order for a spending review due to blowback. Republicans had not joined the chorus of critics, even though red states are heavily dependent on federal grants.

A 10-mile park running underneath a rail transit line in Miami-Dade County is expected to be complete next year. The county’s former transportation chief just signed on to lead a nonprofit supporting ...

The education committees in both the House and Senate approved a $450 million bill, a top priority for Gov. Bill Lee. Legislators are expected to pass it quickly during a special session this week.

The White House ordered a pause on all federal grants, partly intending to target diversity, equity and inclusion and other "woke" programs. A third of states' budgets comes from federal grants.

The Trump White House has ordered a pause on infrastructure spending approved during the last administration, and is ...

As 2024 came to a close, the White House and Congress approved big giveaways to two subsets of state and local government ...

Finding ways to support teaching as a career, including training, innovation and community engagement, helped a Chicago-area ...

Jay Inslee called for a 1 percent tax on residents who possess global wealth of $100 million. Here’s one of the more striking ...