The days of aristocratic patronage are long gone. Symphonies and other local arts organizations now depend heavily on ...

Eight Republican-led states this year left an interstate cooperative that seeks to maintain accurate voter registration rolls, and three more may join them — a move that election security experts say ...

Bloomberg Philanthropies is giving grants and support to cities that want to replicate successful housing strategies in San ...

A county clerk's attempts to remove voters from the rolls prompted intervention by local election officials and the state.

There’s a lot of chatter about a “wave election,” but when it comes to state legislative races the lesson from the past is ...

A shared insurance pool covering 24 counties faces a $25 million shortfall as rising legal claims force local governments to ...

The state has climbed from last to second-to-last in a national ranking, highlighting the persistent lack of contested ...

Some worry that a new generation of progressives threatens the coalitions that opened government to historically excluded ...

A proposed law would require independent testing of powerful AI models for catastrophic<br/>risks, even as the White House ...

In the 2021-2022 election cycle, the biggest public-sector unions spent more than $700 million on election-related activity. This included $160 million from union political action committees. Nearly ...

A former school in rural Caswell County has been transformed into 53 apartments, offering a model for preserving historic ...

California is poised to elect its first Latino governor in more than 150 years, while the tenor of Democratic politics in the ...