Dozens of ballot measures seek to stop, slow or permit data center expansion in local communities.

Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Spring 2025 magazine. You can subscribe here. California high-speed rail is five years late, three times over budget, and nowhere close to being ...

Streetcar lines began to stretch out from the booming manufacturing city of Springfield, Ma., reaching once rural areas and turning them into suburbs, such as Longmeadow, where a line was built in ...

Since January, at least 20 of the nation’s 25 most populous cities have reported budget gaps for fiscal year 2026. Since January, at least 20 of the nation’s 25 most populous cities have reported ...

Tod Simons, the Democrat running to represent parts of the City of Oswego and surrounding rural areas, recently retired after ...

The National League of Cities’ (NLC) 40th annual City Fiscal Conditions report carries a message that sounds reassuring: Cities are adapting. After years of pandemic-era spending, budgets are ...

A proposed law would restrict dog breeding, shorten shelter holding periods and expand sterilization authority as the city ...

About one-third of states enacted major housing reforms in 2026, easing zoning restrictions, parking requirements and ...

Proposals to pipe Missouri River water to drought-prone Western states are raising concerns downstream, opening another front ...

A senior student adjusts her cap before posing for her portrait and picking up her diploma during a graduation ceremony at Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School on May 6, 2020, in Bradley, ...

Just two years after voters overturned a near-total abortion ban, a new ballot measure could reinstate sweeping restrictions ...

Democratic challenger Gina Hinojosa is looking to use Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s all-out push for school choice against him at ...