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Offering hybrid work options is becoming a vital part of workforce strategy for state and local government agencies. This article explores how agencies can address hybrid work challenges such as onboarding remote employees, securing the new working environment and maintaining organizational culture.

A cyber attack against the California public community college two weeks ago blocked access to network systems or took them offline. Administrators say they're approaching full recovery but aren't there yet.

A pivot to online tools over the past two years helped an Irving, Calif.-based company that allows entrepreneurs to build and sell educational content to increase its annual revenue by 250 percent.

The real threat to fire management is death by a thousand cuts, each breakdown leading to shutdowns, each partisan group extracting a concession, that together so encumber the practice that it can’t be implemented.

They've been celebrated as heroes. This week, that temporary workforce of about 60 staff with the Sonoma County, Calif., Department of Health Services will be reduced by a third.

All in one department!

Keeping up with the acronyms.

Water Wise: Trends suggest more storms and sea-level rise. New York and New Orleans develop innovative plans to live with the water.

The university’s new course, with scholarships from Draganfly, offers an introduction to unmanned aerial vehicles, regulations, operation and navigation, and a chance to earn a remote pilot certification.

The app, developed by Amazon subsidiary Ring, allows departments to view and share information with users. More than 2,700 departments are using the service around the country as of mid-June 2022.

Residents of the city are being asked to provide their input on the design and function of a new website. The current website design dates back more than 10 years and has been a source of frustration among residents.

What are your choices and ramifications?

Based on student interest and largely paid for by ESSER funds, the Pennsylvania district's new school will accommodate up to 1,000 students, potentially alleviating overcrowding at another school.

Newly reintroduced legislation could soon force social media companies to publicly share their policies related to removing content. Advocacy groups, however, have several concerns regarding the bill.

The unincorporated community of Lockeford, Calif., is slated to be Amazon’s first attempt at making Prime Air a reality. The company will be working to get the program operational later this summer, officials say.

The New York City Department of Education's "A School Without Walls" program includes a hybrid option which blends in-person and remote learning, and a virtual option with daily synchronous lessons in STEM or humanities.

Answer: Mimicking any voice she hears.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot also put two leaders in charge of the effort, including a city data specialist reporting to her office. The new effort builds upon a push to give more students Internet access at their homes.

North Central Texas College this week hosted Go for IT!, a free, four-day camp to introduce middle schoolers to IT career possibilities in coding, 3-D printing, cybersecurity, drones and other fields.

Social media is an orphaned technology.

Nebraska is set to get $10,923 of a $1.25 million multistate settlement with Carnival Cruise Line stemming from a 2019 data breach involving the personal information of about 180,000 employees and customers.

NASA projects are experiencing their largest collective cost overruns and schedule delays from their original baselines since this reporting began in 2009, though six projects account for the majority of these overruns.

Seattle has agreed to pay $1.5 million to a cannabis retailer to settle a lawsuit in which the company blasted the city for deleting text messages, a settlement among the largest lawsuit payouts by Seattle this year.

A recent study by Carnegie Mellon University looked at the effects of traffic, weather and other factors impacting the safety of highway work zones and increased accident risks in these areas.

Local government agencies like Houston METRO look to make wise use of funding coming from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to strengthen existing assets while innovating for the future.