local governments

More and more states are saying yes to medical marijuana. But local governments are increasingly using their laws to just say no, not in our backyard.

Craft beer is growing, shelf space is shrinking and showdowns with local governments have brewers battling just to get their bottles to drinkers.

Frenzied construction in cities like Wuhan belies signs that development financed with borrowing by local governments could undermine China’s economic progress.

China has released its first public account of debts owed by its local governments, amid concern about the possible impact on banks if borrowers default.

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ’s two-year fight to shield crisis-squeezed banks from the stigma of revealing their public loans protected a lender to local governments in Belgium, a Japanese fishing-cooperative financier and a company part-owned by the Central Bank of Libya.

Limiting the growth of local governments' property tax revenues would help older North Dakotans avoid being pushed to sell their homes because they could no longer afford the tax bills, legislators and agriculture lobbyists said Tuesday.

The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an Urbana hospital doesn't provide enough charitable services to qualify for a property tax exemption, a decision hospitals in Illinois worry could lead local governments to try to overturn other exemptions in a hunt for badly needed cash.

Local governments and public entities, already reeling from the recession, face another fiscal crisis: billions of dollars in fees owed to Wall

(National Academy of Sciences) Zoning restrictions on fast-food restaurants near schools and playgrounds, community policing to improve safety around public recreational sites, requirements that publicly run after-school programs limit video game and TV time, and taxes on high-calorie, low-nutrient foods and drinks are some of the strategies local government officials can use to tackle the childhood obesity epidemic in their communities, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council.

Private investors buy tax liens from local governments and charge double-digit interest rates and thousands of dollars in service fees.