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A $10 million project to bring broadband to rural areas of Lancaster County is underway, thanks to federal stimulus dollars earmarked by Lancaster County commissioners for the project.

These are the highlights of how we got to where we are today.

DHS launches new series of national climate resilience prize competitions.

Jesse Taggert is the director of Research and Design at Truss.works, a software engineering firm. Before that she led design at California’s Child Welfare Digital Services and design and product strategy at 18F Consulting.

When Bill Vajda, the Wyoming CIO in 2022, suddenly left his role in January of this year, few knew the real reason why. Here's the rest of the story.

Bob Bennett is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Digital Government and the founder of B2 Civic Solutions, an international smart cities consultancy firm based in Parkville, Mo. From 2016 to 2019 he served in Mayor Sly James’ administration as the Chief Innovation Officer for the City of Kansas City, Mo. During his tenure, he oversaw the city’s smart city initiatives including a 54-block total digitalization pilot, strategy development for the city and P3-based expansion plans.

Nightmare Scenario: A flu pandemic is coming, but when, and how bad will it be?

The California State Auditor issued a report this week criticizing the Department of Technology for failing to guide the state’s IT needs, failing to assess agencies’ information security systems, and failing to reduce risks to IT projects.

The pullback of Twitter’s blue check marks led to the quick rise of fake accounts spreading lies about public services and officials. What comes next, and how can state and local governments deal with this new reality?

Crawford County commissioners are expected to ratify a contract to expand broadband service to 2,000 homes in the next three years. The county has committed $3 million of its American Rescue Plan Act funds to the project.

The Placer County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved $31 million in funding to bring broadband infrastructure to Sheridan, Newcastle, Loomis, North and South Auburn, Meadow Vista and a neighborhood in Granite Bay.

There are expected to be as many as 850 electric scooters and bikes on Syracuse roads this summer — more than double the 400 or so in circulation last year. The fleet could grow to as many as 1,000 depending on demand.

A new initiative at the private research university will design new courses and programs in artificial intelligence, integrate AI studies into existing courses and get students and faculty thinking about its potential.

As many still advocate for a national privacy law, experts debate where to set guidelines on how police work with constituent data. The discussion isn’t as simple as personal privacy versus community safety.

The group will focus on combating the spread of fentanyl, helping victims of online child sexual exploitation, defending critical infrastructure and improving supply chains.

The U.S. Department of Transportation announced the release of a new $848 million funding program designed around hardening transportation infrastructure in the face of climate change.

Answer: $700,000.

The new recommendations allow an updated bivalent vaccine dose for adults 65 years and older and another dose for people with compromised immune systems, and updates the schedule for children 6 years and older.

The college's first four-year degree programs will be in health care management and artificial intelligence and robotics, building upon related associate degree programs as job openings in those fields increase.

June is the start of a six-month season of potential storms.

Some teachers are requiring students to handwrite all their assignments while studying how to implement ChatGPT, others are already using ChatGPT to design quizzes, but the underlying concern about plagiarism remains.

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection spokeswoman Colleen Connolly said the department’s Emergency Response Team was working at the crash in the Drums area of Luzerne County.

The final documents are posted.

After Congress provided $9.5 billion in funding through public works legislation and tax credits through a climate law, politicians are jockeying to land federal funding for hydrogen tech demo projects.