The tough jobs in a community seem obvious – police officers and firefighters and medical professionals, to name a few.

Between battles in Congress and the federal government shutting down — as well as our own state’s issues with Alaska Permanent Fund dividend solutions, the budget and the executive and legislative ...

As many of you may recall, the 2025 elections, held just a few short months ago, saw new school board members, mayors, borough council members and township commissioners and supervisors elected to ...

More can, and should, be done to improve the transparency and integrity of how local governments help fund Medicaid, but it’s ...

Girl Scouts of Western Pennsylvania Troop 10328 recently met with Sharpsburg Mayor Kayla Portis and got a look at how local government works. The Scouts took turns banging the gavel, asking Portis ...

While opposition parties agree more needs to be done to make local government work better for everybody, they say the government's proposals to scrap regional councils could remove a layer of ...