To address local challenges, cities and counties have to act as catalysts for other groups, including businesses, nonprofits ...

The payoff from effective personnel policies is a heightened sense of residents’ confidence in government and quality of life ...

Crime has mostly gone down under Mayor Cavalier Johnson but there’s still a perception that downtown isn’t safe. Meanwhile, ...

Inflation, tight property tax caps and cooling sales tax revenue are forcing municipalities to cut contracts, raise fees and ...

Factory-built apartments being installed at 3743 4th Ave. in the Hillcrest neighborhood of San Diego. Called factory-built ...

When it comes to protecting their residents from environmental harms, lawmakers in red and blue states alike are making ...

HUD recently changed the eligibility criteria for a grant program to support the Trump administration’s positions on a range ...

When the U.S. Census Bureau recently revealed a small increase in California’s population, it came as a welcome sign to some that the state was growing again. The data even showed a slightly reduced ...

California is poised to create a path for more than 800,000 rideshare drivers at companies including Uber and Lyft to unionize and bargain collectively. The Legislature has passed a bill, which ...

Newsom’s redistricting proposal links rural, conservative Modoc County with liberal Marin — two regions with starkly ...

Fewer open positions stem from budget cuts and disappearing federal relief funds, not from solving the state’s chronic ...

The proposed program mirrors the COVID-era “Save The Dream” initiative, though in a reduced form: eligibility narrowed and ...