The City Council wants more information on the impact of increasing the city’s home rule tax before deciding if it is a ...

Gurnee will no longer have a grocery tax, starting Jan. 1, but the Village voted to increase its home rule sales tax by .5% ...

A small West Houston group wants to create its own charter-governed district within the state's largest school district, ...

Douglas County commissioners have been holding town hall meetings trying to convince voters to approve a Douglas County Home ...

Earlier this year, the Board of Douglas County Commissioners initiated the process to transition from a statutory form of ...

A city report found most Colorado home-rule municipalities tax groceries. Here's how those cities compare to Pueblo ...

As Florida lawmakers continue to work overtime to hammer out a budget deal, WPTV spoke to a local mayor who is closely ...

In a very real sense, the only decision that has been made is a decision to let the voters participate in an election,” Douglas County District Court Judge Robert Lung said.

Throwing out the home rule laws that let children attend schools in their ZIP code is not the intent of a school segregation ...

Douglas County is trying to do something no other Colorado county has done in nearly 50 years — adopt home-rule authority that would give the conservative bastion south of Denver more autonomy ...

Last month, Douglas County commissioners took the first step in a nine-step process of becoming a home rule charter county. There will be two elections that will determine whether this charter is ...

An ordinance regarding what's known as a home rule form of government is on City Council's Wednesday meeting agenda. Erie City Council is once again considering whether to launch a study of a home ...