A vacant 117-acre property in Eatonville that once held a historic Black school has been at the center of years of debate, lawsuits and political disagreements.

Edgewater police and city leaders are moving forward with a proposed ordinance aimed at regulating backyard chickens as more residents already keep hens at home.

Palm Bay leaders approved an ordinance that blocks any new medical marijuana dispensaries in the city.

Federal prosecutors probing public corruption in New York have charged the leaders of a homeless shelter nonprofit with stealing $1.3 million from the taxpayer-backed organization.

The City of Groveland is exploring all options when it comes to how they will be spending the repayment money they received from Kroger. This comes after the facility shut its doors earlier this year, leaving about a thousand people without a job. Council says they need a better picture on where the city could be at in the next decade.

As electric bikes grow more popular across Central Florida, DeLand police are asking city leaders to clarify local rules and give officers more authority to enforce them, especially in the busy downtown area.

A proposal to build a gondola from downtown Los Angeles to Dodger Stadium hit some turbulence when the City Council voted to urge transportation officials to ground the project.

Voters will decide Tuesday among three candidates competing for the Groveland District 4 City Council seat, including incumbent Judith Fike, who was previously suspended and reinstated following controversial social media posts that appeared to be written by her.

The race for Detroit’s next mayor is set to pit a longtime City Council member against a popular pastor.

Milan's mayor says he will not step down in the face of a sweeping probe into the city’s massive urban development over the last two decades.

Several Central Florida cities are hosting fireworks shows on July 4th - Sanford, Winter Springs, Celebration, St. Cloud, to name a few - but not Oviedo for a second year in a row.

Six people in a rural Texas county have been indicted in a widening elections investigation led by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton.

A few months ago, a mayor in Massachusetts was relishing a rare victory over a newspaper for its years of personal attacks.

The city of Minneola has taken a significant step to honor the memory of Master Deputy Sheriff Bradley Link.

Palm Coast City Council member Ray Stevens, who represents District 3, has announced his immediate resignation.

Tenants searching for an apartment in New York City have long been forced to pay thousands of dollars to real estate brokers.

A lot of political changes are coming to Portland, Oregon.

The city of Norfolk, Virginia, has repealed a 45-year-old ban on palm reading and clairvoyance for money.

Black immigrants have turned out in the hundreds across from a City Hall, drawing attention to racial inequities in the city’s shelter and immigrant support systems.

The rural city of Grants Pass in southern Oregon has become the unlikely face of the nation’s homelessness crisis as its case over anti-camping laws goes to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Candidates can now begin filing to run in the special election to serve as interim Orlando city commissioner for District 5.

NYPD officers will have to record the race of people they question under new police transparency law.

New York City’s mayor has vetoed bills aimed at banning solitary confinement in city jails and requiring more transparency in police encounters with civilians.

New York City lawmakers have passed a bill meant to ban solitary confinement in the city’s jails.

After this weekends rain event people in Palm Coast are still dealing with major flooding issues from houses nearby they said are built too high causing water to pool in their yards.

The lawyer for a small Kansas newspaper raided by police last month said he believes officers didn't follow the search warrant's requirements to only seize computers believed directly involved in suspected identity theft.

One of the reporters who works at the small Kansas newspaper that was raided by authorities earlier this month filed a federal lawsuit against the police chief Wednesday.

The positions include Mayor of Lake Helen, Town Council Seat 3 in Ponce Inlet and City Council District 2 in Port Orange.

Newly released video shows the 98-year-old mother of a Kansas newspaper publisher confronting police officers as they searched her home in a raid that has drawn national scrutiny.

Activists have announced an effort to force a referendum that would allow Atlanta voters to decide whether the construction of a proposed police and firefighter training center should proceed.

A federal jury in Florida has awarded $63.5 million to a pair of businessmen who claimed a city of Miami commissioner used his office to harass them after they supported the commissioner’s political opponent.

Democratic leaders in major U.S. cities are finding themselves politically squeezed when it comes to addressing homelessness.

Five major U.S. cities and the state of California will receive federal help to get unsheltered residents into permanent housing.

Los Angeles' new mayor has outlined her vision to turn around a troubled City Hall and restrain an out-of-control homeless crisis in the nation's second-largest city.

Voters in Portland, Oregon, have approved a ballot measure that will overhaul the city's government, spurred by growing concerns over homelessness and a desire to make City Hall more inclusive.

U.S. Rep. Karen Bass has pulled ahead of developer Rick Caruso in their back-and-forth contest to become mayor of Los Angeles.

Nearly a half-century after arson killed 32 people in a New Orleans gay bar, the City Council has renewed the search for the remains of four victims — three of them never identified.

A proposal to remove a Confederate monument from a Jacksonville park has been withdrawn after a heated debate that ended with the audience being ordered out of City Council chambers.

Minneapolis voters are deciding whether to replace the city’s police force with a new Department of Public Safety.

An 1833 statue of Thomas Jefferson will be removed from New York’s City Council chamber by the end of the year.

Los Angeles leaders have voted to enact one of the nation’s strictest vaccine mandates.

Cocoa City Council to vote on property taxes in upcoming meeting.

Defense attorney Eric Nelson also raised the possibility of renewing his previously unsuccessful motion to move Derek Chauvin's trial to another city. AdMayor Jacob Frey deferred questions about the timing of the settlement to City Attorney Jim Rowader, who declined to comment. Potential jurors questioned later didn't mention hearing of the settlement, and neither attorneys nor the judge directly asked if they were aware of it. At least four potential jurors dismissed Monday said they couldn’t be impartial. Three other former officers face an August trial on charges of aiding and abetting second-degree murder and manslaughter.

The footprint of the production hub will grow with a private land purchase and a lease involving state trust land. She said the partnership with Netflix should send a signal that New Mexico is the place to be for film and television production. As part of the proposed investment, Netflix has committed to providing training programs in partnership with the New Mexico Film Office, local universities and industry organizations. Since coming to New Mexico in 2018, Netflix said it has spent more than $200 million, used more than 2,000 production vendors and hired more than 1,600 cast and crew members. Netflix is in production in New Mexico on the original films “The Harder They Fall" and “Intrusion" and is expected to soon begin filming “Stranger Things 4" in Albuquerque.

Tommy Hazouri Jr., a second-grade teacher on the Mayport Coastal Sciences Elementary School website, was arrested at his parents' home in August on 25 counts of child pornography. A spokesperson for the Jacksonville FBI said that an agent arrested Hazouri Jr. at his home Sept. 4 and that he was heading to a federal facility. Notably, Hazouri Jr. is not facing additional charges, but the charges are now more serious since the case has shifted to federal. There was also more information on the photos taken of a female student in Hazouri Jr.'s classroom at Mayport Elementary. He transferred to Englewood Elementary in 2018 and moved last year to Mayport Elementary.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The medical examiner, who for months has been overwhelmed with bodies of people who have overdosed on opioid, made her case Friday for additional funds as the City Council committee is reviewing the $1.2 billion budget proposal for next year. On a Monday especially," Chief Medical Examiner Valarie Rao said. On average, four of every seven bodies that arrive at the morgue are people who have died of a drug overdose. But during budget hearings, she and others were told that it could be five years before a new, $15 million facility could be built. The city is looking at having surrounding counties that use the medical examiner pitch in on the cost, and hopefully, get help from the federal government.