The FBI defines officers as employees who “ordinarily carry a firearm and a badge, have full arrest powers, and are paid from governmental funds set aside specifically to pay sworn law ...

The Trump White House has ordered a pause on infrastructure spending approved during the last administration, and is promoting new spending on digital infrastructure to support artificial intelligence ...

Voters approved $10 billion in school construction bonds last November. Facing big maintenance backlogs, districts around the state are worried the money could be quickly depleted by the need to ...

President Trump’s executive order abolishing remote work for most employees will be good for the local economy and transit systems. Twenty percent of the federal workforce lives in the D.C. area.

When those basics are working well, urban leaders can look to do more. But right now, we are far from that point, either in reality or public perception. Many cities in America are financially ...

The city is launching “neighborhood wellness courts,” a diversion program designed to issue citations and offer addiction treatment and other services in lieu of misdemeanor sentences.

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

The nation's largest health insurance program is likely to be cut in Congress this year to pay for other priorities. That ...

Insurance companies were fleeing fire-prone parts of California even before the disaster in Los Angeles. Policymakers are ...

The programs depend on temporary sources of funding from Washington and the state that may be drying up. Finding sustainable ...

During a confirmation hearing, Eric Scott Turner said his priority as secretary would be increasing the supply of affordable ...

The 2023-24 school year saw the highest percentage of kindergarteners exempted from vaccinations, with increases in 40 states ...