Lake County officials heard that Colorados primaries reshaped legislative leadership, that Phil Weisers incoming administration is offering local partnerships on fires and water, and that a major road-funding initiative was removed from the ballot after talks with state actors.

Varde Municipality will close three nursing homes as part of its budget through 2030, DR reports, including Sognelunden in Agerbæk, where 91-year-old Hans Christian Thuesen lives. Twenty-four of the 25 members of Varde Municipal Council support the budget. Although Thuesen will be allowed to rema…

The proposed closure of Terslev School dominated a public meeting on Faxe Municipality’s budget, leaving Mayor Mikkel Dam with “even more of a stomach ache”, DR reports. The school, which has 58 pupils, is included in a package of proposed savings worth up to 50 million kroner in next year’s budg…

Forty five Danish municipalities have applied for a record total of more than DKK 2.7 billion from a fund for municipalities in particularly difficult financial circumstances, DR reports. The fund contains only DKK 1 billion. The municipalities will be told towards the end of August whether they …

Not long ago, state legislators touted historic funding for public schools and local government, but about a year on, many schools districts, villages, cities, towns and county boards are still

House Bill 1766 was perfected and printed after floor debate; it would align personal property valuation growth with Hancock/CPI limitations (removing personal property from a 'new construction' bucket), a change sponsors say curbs windfalls to political subdivisions while opponents warned of effects on local budgets and services.

County representatives discuss impacts of federal SNAP changes on local budgets and services.