The fee has generated $2.3 billion for Chesapeake Bay cleanup. Lawmakers are considering extending it to fund a broader range ...

About 60 percent of homeowners 65 and older have no school property tax bill, thanks to exemptions that leave other taxpayers ...

Mary Caferro, a Democrat in the Montana House, speaks at a July rally at the Montana Capitol in Helena, criticizing the state ...

New York lawmakers want to force news organizations to label artificial intelligence-generated content. It’s unworkable and constitutionally suspect, and would fall hardest on the smallest news ...

A study on Rhode Island public schools finds significantly lower chronic absenteeism rates among kids who take music each ...

In the first episode of the 2026 season of The Common Thread, Governing CEO CathileaRobinett sits down with Kansas Governor ...

Some activists have recently pushed President Donald Trump to ban voting machines and mail ballots to prevent foreign interference in election outcomes. The risk of foreign interference is real — but ...

AI is stripping learning opportunities from the kind of entry-level positions that could lead to better things. States and ...

New research links housing scarcity and higher rents to increased poverty. In the most affected states, up to 34 percent of ...

As gaps in the federal monitoring network grow, laws in some states limit regulators’ ability to act on pollution data ...

Women make up just 14 percent of officers. Reaching 30 percent by 2030 could require changes to recruitment and workplace ...

The American Kratom Association argues that regulations are enough to keep residents safe, and that natural kratom products ...