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Kevin Guthrie, Florida’s emergency management director, explained during a morning press briefing in Tallahassee that the state is trying to verify whether 20 of the deaths were as a result of the storm, or unrelated causes.

A recent survey of emergency personnel indicates that violence is increasing and taking a physical and emotional toll on professionals and thus compromising the care that patients are getting.

The use of robotics by the Allen County Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency was first introduced in 2005, enabling safer inspections of potential bomb threats with less risk.

Two electric buses have arrived in Santa Rosa and two more are on the way as the city is poised to put them into service this year — the start of a bigger shift to eliminate carbon emissions tied to the CityBus fleet.

The longtime Pittsburgh resident and businessman, known as "Dr. C," invented the technology for the digital teleconference call from which platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Teams and others were derived.

Ah, how being in disaster changes one’s perspective.

Like many states, preparing for cyber incidents in Massachusetts includes everything from response planning to getting leadership and other departments engaged to disbursing funding to local governments.

Of course they have money, but they will have damages.

Plus, Chicago has posted a new RFI related to expanding broadband access throughout the entire city, Pittsburgh has announced a new digital equity coalition, North Carolina has a digital equity grant program and more.

Answer: You decide, reactions are mixed.

A new Bonfire report paints a complex picture of growing awareness of diversity even as minority-owned suppliers struggle to gain footing in the gov tech industry. What does this mean for better tools and services?

A Storm Surge Warning remained in effect Thursday, Sept. 29, for parts of the coast including Savannah, Tybee and Ossabaw islands, according to the National Weather Service office in Charleston.

Electric school buses are playing an increasingly large role in helping to manage the sustainability of the power grid as more renewable sources of power generation continue to come online.

Welcome to the latest issue of The Districts, where we chronicle the people, issues and activities impacting special districts across the U.S.

Gov. DeSantis said several people on the barrier islands of Lee and Charlotte counties were rescued by helicopter early Thursday morning. The area experienced “massive inundation.”

A quick scan of the null could give the impression that cybersecurity in the government sector is only a concern for the federal government, due to references to federal agencies or because cyber attacks seemingly only originate overseas. Yet this would be misleading.

There is something for just about anyone.

The Lincoln Board of Education gave initial consideration to a 10-year contract that would allow the district to connect to a network of dark fiber, which are unused strands of cable already installed that can be leased.

For the first time dating back to the fall of 2019, back-to-school time really does mean going physically back to school for students in local districts and nearby colleges — but with a healthy asterisk.

When the pandemic was brewing in Asia in early 2020, Lauren Gardner, a civil engineering professor at Johns Hopkins University, and a graduate student saw the chance to mine the data and map an outbreak from the start.

Upstate New York’s largest nuclear power station is branching out into the hydrogen business in hopes of boosting its profits as well as its role in New York’s energy grid of the future.

Illinois residents who filed claims for a cut of Google’s $100 million class-action settlement that is related to alleged violations of a state privacy law there could receive checks of about $154 each.

The St. Paul City Council recently filled two director-level openings that are in the city’s library and technology departments on Wednesday by voting to approve them as interim appointments.

Federal workplace regulators recently fined San Jose, Calif., food-delivery startup Locale $140,000 for employing more than six dozen teenaged drivers, which is in violation of child-labor law.

Leaders of the Golden State have long sought credit for the success of the world's largest electric-car manufacturer, and now Newsom is suggesting the state's incentives are responsible for the emergence of Tesla.