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% ...

Voters in Douglas County are less than a week away from a special election to determine whether or not to form a home rule ...

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

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

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.

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

Goodness knows, warning notices have been posted via this column in recent years. True, anti-home rule bills have been dropped in the hopper on the Hill before, only to die in committee.

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 ...

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 ...

"Home-rule" legal authority gives city governments in Colorado the power to make laws regarding matters of local concern. It differs from state control, where matters of city government are ...