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State Auditor Probes Rocky Mount’s Finances as City Imposes Rate Hikes, Deep Cuts

The mayor says the city will cooperate with investigators to explain two years of overspending.

Seminole County Approves 10.2% Property Tax Hike, Adopts $1.2 Billion Budget

MSCS Recommends Closing 4 Schools, Transferring 1 in First-Phase Facilities Plan

Waterbury Schools Closed as City Drains 30-Inch Main to Fix Valve Break

Republic Services, Teamsters Local 25 Seal 5-Year Deal Ending 11-Week Massachusetts Trash Strike

New Orleans Council Seeks State Audit to Clarify City Deficit

Portland Freezes Most Hiring as Budget Office Projects $16 Million General Fund Gap

San Diego Approves Balboa Park Paid Parking, Delays Rollout to Early 2026

Hoboken Issues Local Boil-Water Advisory After Contractor Damages 10-Inch Main at 7th and Madison

Santa Monica Declares Fiscal Distress, Not Emergency, After Unanimous Council Vote

Boil-Water Advisory Issued in Hoboken After Sinkhole Triggers 12-Inch Main Break

First Student Apologizes and Deploys Fixes After New Britain Special-Needs Bus Failures

Two Lanes Reopen on Cleveland Shoreway After Water Main Leak

Pueblo County Coroner Brian Cotter to Resign After 24 Bodies Found in Mortuary

City Hall Rolls Back Upper West Side Metered Parking

Munich’s New Justice Center Faulted for Too-Narrow Prisoner Ramp

Water Restored to Paterson’s Riverside After 42-Inch Main Rupture as Boil Advisories Persist

BOE Confirms Vigo Dropped as 2026 Health Specialty Exam Site

PVC Water Main Break Floods Berlin’s Lichtenberg District, Cuts Supply to 50 Homes

Anglo American Offers Engineering Support in Whitby Cliff Lift Feasibility Talks