Milwaukee County approves sales tax increase as part of plan to avoid bankruptcy
The Milwaukee County board has voted to nearly double the county’s sales tax, two weeks after the city of Milwaukee appr...
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'It was like a heartbeat': Residents at a loss after newspaper shutters in declining coal county
Months after the last newspaper closed in a declining coal community in West Virginia, residents say they are already ex...
Number of homeless residents in Los Angeles County jumps by 9% in annual count
The number of homeless residents counted in Los Angeles County has spiked again, increasing by 9% since last year
Oregon county sues oil, coal companies for $51 billion over deadly heat dome
Oregon's most populous county is suing more than a dozen fossil fuel companies to recover costs related to extreme weath...
Supreme Court rules in favor of 94-year-old woman who got nothing when county took her condo
A unanimous Supreme Court has given a 94-year-old Minneapolis woman a new chance to recoup some money after the county k...
Michigan court: County prosecutors can enforce abortion ban
The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that county prosecutors can enforce the state's 91-year-old abortion ban, paving...
Georgia county files suit to force land sale for spaceport
A Georgia county has filed a lawsuit that seeks to force a company to sell it 4,000 acres on which the county has long p...
Rural Florida county shocked by fentanyl deaths over holiday
A small, rural county just west of Florida’s capital is stunned by an unheard-of spike in deadly drug overdoses believed...
County's $7M in PPE left outside, damaged by California rain
About $7 million worth of surplus personal protective equipment and cleaning supplies, purchased by a Northern Californi...
Omicron is dominant in wastewater samples in Florida county
Even though there have been no cases of clinical infection, the new omicron variant is now the dominant strain of COVID-...
