Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Pennsylvania Capitol at night. (Photo by Peter Hall/Capital-Star) The state Senate passed a new $47.9 billion budget proposal ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago City Council passed a 2026 city budget plan Saturday, but Mayor Brandon Johnson has the ability to veto it. The $16.6 billion budget, which does not include the mayor's ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The City Council's budget standoff with Mayor Brandon Johnson moved another step closer to a vote as their plan faced scrutiny in an important committee Wednesday. Members of the ...

Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey’s administration on Tuesday proposed a penny-pinching budget that avoids a tax increase for 2026. Gainey’s $680 million operating budget — which funds basic city functions, ...

LANSING — A budget approved Tuesday, Aug. 26 by the Republican-controlled House would cut spending across state government, including cuts to the Michigan State Police and payments to local ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Gov. Dan McKee on Thursday asked lawmakers to slap a new 3% surtax on Rhode Island millionaires and scale back renewable energy mandates as part of an election-year budget ...

The alternative budget proposal championed by a group of Chicago aldermen won a crucial first full City Council vote on Friday, even as Mayor Brandon Johnson made a last-ditch effort to reintroduce ...

Renegade Chicago aldermen battling with Mayor Brandon Johnson over competing 2026 budgets announced tweaks to their proposal Monday, but withheld critical details as a negotiation meeting between the ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson delivered a public message Monday to aldermen who are threatening an imminent vote on their own 2026 budget plan: Bring it on. Speaking at a City Hall news conference, the mayor ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Mayor Brandon Johnson is expected to propose reinstating ...

On the first day of school after winter break, San Francisco public school principals were greeted by a baffling email from district Superintendent Maria Su. School principals and members of the San ...