How people feel about where they live  is an overlooked factor in engaging them in civic life. There are ways to boost those feelings.

State leaders who want to curb the increasingly violent arrest tactics of immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis and elsewhere are struggling to push back. They’ve promis ...

The incentives are reshaping rural economies, with debates emerging about oversight and long-term community costs.

An artist’s rendering for a proposed affordable housing development outside of Seattle, Wash. (CoStar Group) After 100 years of increasingly strict land-use regulations that particularly target the ...

Public officials can make the greatest difference when they focus on their communities’ housing, transportation and utility costs.

Advanced systems are reshaping professional judgment, forcing local governments to rethink accountability, performance management and labor relations.

A statewide strike aims to halt normal economic activity in response to recent enforcement actions and a fatal shooting.

Federal policy fights, a proposed state funding holdback and declining student counts are squeezing school district budgets.

Phil Murphy signed a bill Monday that makes New Jersey one of the most restrictive states for e-bikes, much to the dismay of ...

Joe DiVincenzo has served as county executive for Essex County, N.J., since 2003. He's become a power broker in Democratic state politics even while working with and endorsing some Republicans.

Her first executive order is a “statewide affordability directive,” instructing state agencies to find “actionable budgetary, ...

U.S. cities lag far behind global leaders in public transit. Building world-class transit in the U.S. would cost an extra ...