La Plata County commissioners are asking voters to approve a 1% sales tax increase this November to fund basic services (Herald, Aug. 27). While I understand the need to maintain roads, law ...

A huge number of property owners rent out homes and evade local fees and taxes. Sacramento has a plan for transparency to hold them accountable.

The city of Durango is accepting pro and con statements regarding the Durango Fire Protection District’s November ballot item to raise property taxes within the city of Durango for a new fire station ...

Linn County Board of Supervisors vice chair Kirsten Running-Marquardt (from left), chair Brandy Z. Meisheid and Sami Scheetz listen to a public comment during the Linn County Supervisors public ...

An entire professional broadcast studio is going up for auction because of about $70,000 in unpaid debt at Arlington Independent Media, an official says. Hundreds of professional-grade items -- ...

The fallowed farmland—too dry, salty and barren to grow crops—stretches across a remote, sunbaked expanse crisscrossed by ...

Prop 50 has put political operations in a bit of a holding pattern as folks wait for the outcome of the special election to learn which congressional maps will be in play.

There’s a quiet tension, even fear, among some Latino immigrants in this central Wisconsin city where they've been ingrained in the community.

Lancaster County commissioners may break a 12-year streak of not raising property taxes next year, according to language in a ...

Last November, almost 70% of Californians voted in favor of Proposition 36, which increases felony charges and sentences for certain drug and theft crimes while creating a treatment-focused court ...

County leaders are expected to vote Tuesday on a plan to put $10 million toward rent relief for tenants harmed by recent fires and federal immigration actions.

Powerball players will get another chance Monday at a jackpot estimated at over $1 billion, after no one won the big prize ...