Good morning, Chicago. Cook County is predicting a $211.4 million budget shortfall for 2026, a relatively modest gap that officials said was more of an estimate than usual thanks to extraordinary ...

For all the talk of public disorder and random crime, New York City’s real crisis lies in its infrastructure. We have too little housing, insufficient energy, 19th century sewers, creaking subways ...

New York City comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander has been arrested at a federal building in Manhattan ...

New York City's comptroller, mayoral candidate Brad Lander, has been arrested while visiting an immigration court.

Ivey's 127-page budget proposal for 2025-26, submitted to county commissioners, would increase the Brevard County Sheriff's ...

The Trump administration is pushing to reshape the federal housing safety net by slashing spending and shifting the burden of ...

A LaGuardia Community College STEM grant program was cut by the Trump Administration and the professor is calling for it to ...

A new proposal for child investment accounts sounds progressive—but its biggest beneficiaries would be families that can ...

Many longtime New Yorkers have had a sinking feeling at some point in the past decade. They have worried that their city was heading back to the bad old days of the 1970s and ’80s. Subway trips can ...

School budget votes begin on Tuesday across New York. Most polls are open at 7 a.m. and many will stay open through 9 p.m. While voters will be deciding on school budgets, there will also be races for ...

“We believe it’s one big, ugly bill that’s going to hurt the American people,” said House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York as he ... the Congressional Budget Office said ...

According to New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, spending outpaces revenue in the state’s $254 billion budget for the ...