Austin City Council members are in for a busy few weeks of budget work sessions before their Aug. 15 deadline to adopt a city budget for the next fiscal year.

Fireworks are now banned in Dripping Springs historic districts following an ordinance passed 3-2 by City Council at a meeting July 16.

Councilmember Paige Ellis proposed that the city council explore what she calls “a small, dedicated fee on utility bills” for park maintenance and improvement.

Former Chicago Ald. Carrie Austin is too sick to stand trial on charges that she took bribes in the form of home improvements ...

Pensacola mayor, city council and Escambia commissioners met to weigh options for Pensacola Bay Center, which needs millions ...

Hays County commissioners will appeal the decision, which invalidated the bond measure approved by voters in November.

Siouxland Chamber of Commerce President Chris McGowan is running for Congress in Iowa's conservative 4th Congressional ...

The NJEA since December has been hoping to pass two bills that would do away with the pension tier system in which waves of public workers hired after 2007 were placed into less and less generous ...

Texas officials and Hill Country leaders knew the risks of flooding along the Guadalupe. Warnings went unheeded, flood ...

The president said earlier Tuesday that Attorney General Pam Bondi should release "whatever she thinks is credible" in the ...

After more than a decade of delays, the New Orleans City Council has approved a program to cut energy use in large buildings ...

Since the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 was passed in the late 90s, immigration ...