ROCHESTER, N.Y. — As the government shutdown continues with no end in sight, local groups are raising concerns about hunger and food assistance programs. Advocates gathered at Saint Peter’s Kitchen on ...

In light of the federal government’s refusal to cooperate with state and local investigations of the two recent federal ...

DHS is leading the investigations, not the FBI, which has raised questions about independence, and local officials have been ...

More local officials than ever say in a new survey that political polarization is having a negative impact nationally, with those in larger communities seeing greater local effects — findings that ...

States, cities and nonprofits had sued to spare millions of low-income Americans from losing benefits starting on Saturday, after the Trump administration said it would not fund them. By Tony Romm ...

A federal judge in Boston indicated Thursday that she will intervene in a high-stakes fight over the Trump administration’s decision to not tap into billions of dollars in emergency funds to help ...

Less than a year from the midterm elections, state and local voting officials from both major political parties are actively preparing for the possibility of interference by a federal government ...

The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has said that it would be impossible for the local government to develop without empowerment. Akpabio emphasised that the local government remains the first ...

“When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the people you are there to serve.” – Valerie Jarrett, a former Senior Advisor to former ...