Lawmakers are expanding criminal laws to target cargo theft, gift-card fraud and other schemes that have become increasingly ...

Across the state of Montana, there have been wide gaps in the state’s wildfire smoke detection safety net. PurpleAirs in Schools — a Department of Environmental Quality program now in its third year — ...

Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Winter 2025 magazine. You can subscribe here. We don’t move state capitals around in this country very often, or at least we haven’t since the 19th ...

Virginia job seekers now have a right to know what a position pays before applying online under a new state law aimed at ...

An aging network of century-old pipes is forcing the city to make difficult decisions about where limited replacement dollars ...

Both the states and the feds believe they need more control over the voting process. It’s a dispute that’s gone unresolved ...

The Trump administration says states can fill the gap left by weaker federal habitat protections, but wildlife officials say ...

On the Oregon/Idaho border, rural Americans’ access to care depends on which side of the river they happen to live.

As the city's economy rebounds, the mayor says expanding housing and lowering costs are critical to ensuring growth benefits ...

Thousands of new private schools have opened as public funding expands, but many states have chosen a hands-off approach to ...

State incentives and industry investment are fueling a semiconductor boom that officials hope will secure Texas' place at the ...

Steve Waldrip, a senior adviser on housing for Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, will lead a new state Division of Housing and Community ...