After years of staffing shortages and budget woes, South Tucson is officially outsourcing its fire services. The new partnership with Rural Metro aims to improve response times and provide much-needed ...

The years before the leader-cabinet system saw central government struggling to keep up with local innovation, writes the deputy chief executive of the CfGS.

The project's future is inseparable from that of the province and its people; rather than dismissing them, the state must engage them meaningfully’ ...

With $50 million to deploy and a first slate of projects set to be unveiled in March, Cook says the smart money should already be looking south.

Amid ongoing political tension in the state, lawmakers elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun State have declared their ...

A new working paper from Nobel laureate James A. Robinson finds a vast landscape of 45,000 polities—deliberately fragmented to protect local autonomy ...

The House’s approval sets the stage for what could become two of the most consequential local ballot questions in ...

Oakland has long stood out among major metropolitan cities for how little power its mayor holds, a problem that critics blame ...

The report that Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has approved the immediate commencement of direct payment of monthly statutory ...

Democratic Socialists of America faces congressional scrutiny over alleged 'malign foreign influence' from China, Venezuela and Cuba.

The Northland leadership team met with Local Government Minister Simon Watts ahead of Waitangi Day to begin discussions about their approach. Watts was told that Northland’s councils are keen to ...

Portland officials have uncovered $106 million in unspent housing funds that they are shifting into the budgetary process for city lawmakers to consider, the city administrator made in an ...