The Livable Communities Act got a thumbs-up from NACo during testimony by Carroll County, Md. Board Chair Julia Gouge at a Senate hearing.

NACo Steering Committee chair provided the opening response to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s keynote speech during the National Summit of Rural America.

Health care dominated discussions at the Large Urban County Caucus's Annual Meeting in Los Angeles County, June 2-4.

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Bollards? Really? Who goes on a European vacation and comes home with pictures of … bollards? Lynn Peterson does, that’s who. The Clackamas County, Ore. Commission chair has a fascination with the tubular posts that indicate who and what go where — traffic here, people there. She is, after all, a civil engineer who also has “a little bit of an obsession” with roundabouts.

As summertime temperatures heat up across the United States, county mosquito control programs are seeing drastic cuts in funding.

Santa Fe County is serving as a laboratory for the rest of New Mexico as the first jurisdiction in the state to establish a clean-energy loan program, repayable through the borrower’s property taxes.

Verizon Wireless recently launched plans to partner with rural operators and firms that own cell towers or provide backhaul services to bring advanced wireless services, or LTE, to rural America.