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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.

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.

An event Jack Barstow Municipal Airport in Michigan, hosted by a senior from H.H. Dow High School, showed more than 100 elementary students how deeply STEM and technology are integrated into aviation.

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

Having launched its UJ Accelerated division last fall to offer certifications in fields such as cybersecurity and analytics, the North Dakota institution is discussing workforce needs with local business leaders.

Gary Zell, a meteorologist for the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, said in a briefing a "double-barrel system" is expected to bring four days of "critical fire weather," with low humidity, high temperatures and wind.

In school districts around Carlisle, Pa., a third round of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funding may go toward HVAC and other facility upgrades and intervention programs for learning loss.

Federal regulators are taking a new look at whether to require automatic systems that limit a truck’s speed, one of the National Transportation Safety Board’s most wanted safety improvements.

Many Mainers have issues with Internet connectivity, mostly because of the old copper wire phone network in place, especially in rural areas, according to Erik Garr, of Consolidated Communications.

Amid calls to improve the city of Napa's traffic safety, the Napa City Council will explore whether the city should bring back highly controversial red-light camera traffic enforcement that's been gone since 2017.