The public sector is more obsessed than ever with using data to make decisions. But some think the quality of it may be getting worse.

The notion of controlling development and limiting suburban sprawl is finding some traction in pockets of the Sun Belt and ...

Threats down to the local level have grown more pervasive. Party officials worry that recent shootings could have a deterring ...

A slew of measures that passed the Senate failed to come up for a vote in the Assembly. Advocates blame Speaker Carl Heastie, ...

Overall state aid to colleges and universities was flat this year but lawmakers approved $610 million in construction, with ...

The state is seeing a larger decline in residents 18 and younger than any other state. It’s also getting older and seeing losses in its working-age population.

It won’t be easy, but former mayors Michael Tubbs and Aja Brown hope to prevent displaced lower income Altadena residents ...

Ruthzee Louijeune is the city’s first Haitian American City Council president. Now she’s fighting the Trump administration on ...

Tracy Post, chair of the Yarmouth, Mass., Select Board. She was referring to state Rep. Chris Flanagan, who has kept his seat but not appeared in public since being indicted on federal fraud ...

The court ruled that states can deny Medicaid payments for medical screenings and other services at the abortion provider.

One California re-entry program boasts a 92 percent success rate in helping former prisoners find jobs or continue schooling ...

Skills-Based Requirements Accelerate Diverse Hiring MissionSquare Research surveyed249 state and local government human resources managers, and found 51 percent reported they often have to re-open ...