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From becoming carbon-neutral to having net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, 21 states are making the legislative push toward cleaner energy production. But these efforts are not without substantial challenges.

Pete Gaynor holds forth on the topic.

Allison Garrett, chancellor of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, said the state isn't producing enough college-educated computer engineers and scientists who can build, code, program and repair technology.

In the wake of a ransomware attack that shut down its network in November, Lewis and Clark Community College is working with Experian IdentityWorks to provide students with one year of credit monitoring.

The Center for Digital Government recently asked state and local technology leaders about the current state of privacy programs. The results? There's a disconnect between organizational practices and public expectations.

The drill will simulate an aircraft mishap with "mass casualties," the base said in a notice on its website. First responders will immediately head to the exercise location, and an 88th Air Base Wing inspection team will evaluate response across the base.

Two new subvariants that are part of the Omicron family: BA.4 and BA.5.

Erie County, N.Y., has released a draft business plan for a new $29 million network that would lay hundreds of miles of fiber-optic lines from as far north as Newstead and Grand Island to as far south as Concord.

The Mountain View, Calif., digital-advertising and Internet-search giant announced in a recent blog post that it has broadened the scope of data people can ask to have taken down from its platforms.

With wildfires becoming bigger and more destructive as the West dries out and heats up, agencies and officials tasked with preventing and battling the blazes could soon have a new tool to add to their arsenal.

At the NASCIO Midyear Conference this week, Texas Chief Information Officer Amanda Crawford outlined some of the state's most significant cybersecurity initiatives now underway.

There are some changes from the past.

We were all so naive in our pandemic thinking.

A New Phase of Emergency Alerting webinar.

Clay Jenkinson, Governing’s editor-at-large and humanities scholar on Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt, tells us how literature and history can help inform leaders in this time of global national crisis.

Pennsylvania CIO John MacMillan explained that emerging tech has always been part of IT services. As long as it solves a problem, a technology is innovative regardless of whether it’s cutting edge.

Ashley Laymon leads Maryland’s portfolio office, an organization she describes as a business relationship management team, bridging the gap between central IT and state agencies working on technology projects.

First responders — from police to firemen — in Amherst, N.Y., often have trouble communicating during emergencies when they're only 100 feet away from each other. The town wants COVID-19 dollars to change that.

In a vote along party lines, the Connecticut Legislature has passed a bill that would require state agencies to switch to electric vehicles. The bill also expands the state's existing EV rebate program.

A press conference lasting less than 10 minutes was held Friday to address the April 16 cyber attack, but it remains unclear if any data was breached or when all city services will come back online.

GTY plans to go private after being acquired by a private equity firm. Industry experts talk about what this means for government customers and whether this type of deal can happen again as the industry grows.

The company, with the backing of one of the only Native American-owned venture capital firms in the U.S., is taking applications to get technology into the hands of tribal law enforcement to make better use of data.

The Huebner Creek Flood Mitigation Project would remove several properties from the 100-year floodplain along the creek — by realigning and widening the channel in the creek — and provide for erosion control.

At the NASCIO Midyear Conference, Alaska CIO Bill Smith talked about how the push to hybrid work in the past two years has allowed new voices to join the government workforce from the large state’s more rural areas.

Answer: There is now.