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 ...

A 10-mile park running underneath a rail transit line in Miami-Dade County is expected to be complete next year. The county’s ...

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

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.

Some programmers and engineers are willing to forego private-sector pay to find meaningful work. But governments need to be more nimble about hiring.

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

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 ...

The administration rescinded its order for a spending review due to blowback.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.

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

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.

AI caused less damage through misinformation or election administration than predicted in 2024. New laws meant to combat ...