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Facing a $9 billion loss in tax revenues, city leaders cut agency spending across the board, including the Department of Cultural Affairs. The New York City budget adopted early Wednesday [...]

On Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio declared the matter of the horses closed. A day later, it was clear the circus had just begun. Not long after Mr. de Blasio [...]

The crushing news came less than a year after Diane Robinson and her 24-year-old son moved into an airy two-bedroom apartment in the Bronx. The city, which helps pay her [...]

The following editorial appeared in Monday's Washington Post: Slowly but surely, reality is taking hold in the debate over the massive liabilities state and local governments have accumulated for their [...]

Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council speaker, Melissa Mark-Viverito, have announced an agreement on a $75 billion budget that Mr. de Blasio said signaled a more compassionate era [...]

In the face of Detroit's tumultuous bankruptcy proceedings, in which multiple parties are quarreling to protect their interests, the city and its unions have quietly negotiated a scaled-back pension plan [...]

The city of Detroit on Monday evening proposed new details, including potentially larger cuts to pensions for some retirees, for its plan for paying off portions of its debts and [...]

A rosier-than-expected financial picture has left Mayor Bill de Blasio with an unanticipated predicament as he releases his first preliminary New York budget on Wednesday: how to hide a surplus [...]

OBERHAUSEN, Germany -- What is it like to be ''Germany's Detroit,'' as the news media here has crowned Oberhausen, which for the second year running has received the dubious distinction [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDSPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- First came the State of Illinois, now comes the City of Chicago. The hard-fought passage here Tuesday of a landmark bill trimming retirement benefits for state [...]

Suppose you were in charge of New York City and had $10 million to spend. That's enough money to repave 65 miles of streets, or pay for 80 police officers [...]

As the sun began to set one recent Sunday, saltwater poured off Jamaica Bay onto West 12th Road, one of the lowest-lying areas in New York City. Residents bolted out [...]

What's done is done. In their last joint appearance related to the city's budget, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, on Sunday night reached [...]

On a sun-splashed afternoon in late spring, Abigail Mastroserio, 2, scampered in the playground at Kelly Park, in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn. It was not long before she [...]

Byline: JUSTINE HUNTER POLITICS VICTORIA -- With a provincial election on the horizon, local governments typically can count on their provincial counterparts to arrive at the annual Union of B.C. [...]

STOCKTON, Calif. -- The long, slow slide into financial collapse is nearly complete for this Central Valley community. On Tuesday night, City Council members approved a new budget that will [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- Amid all the sobering discussions of what happens when cities run out of money, fiscal sleight of hand and time, the most telling detail at a conference on [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED ON a weeknight in mid-March, a room in the Park Slope Armory Y.M.C.A. that is frequently used for children's birthday parties was packed with tables draped in pale [...]

Byline: Julianne Malveaux What is happening in a handful of municipalities across the country doesn't bode well for the nation's economic health, either. Two municipalities have filed for bankruptcy protection [...]

Byline: SIRI AGRELL GOVERNMENT Canadian cities will prosper or decline depending on the individual powers they can win from their provincial governments, predicts Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi. 'Right now, we [...]

Four City Council members, intrigued by experiments begun in Brazil to let ordinary citizens determine how government uses tax dollars, say they plan to allow their constituents to decide how [...]

Byline: MARCUS GEE BUDGET / REVIEW mgee@globeandmail.com If there is anybody left in Toronto who still thinks the city can solve its money troubles simply by stopping the gravy train, [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE BUDGET Let the season of budgetary bloodletting begin. On Tuesday night, the city held the first of eight public meetings planned for its service review, a six-month [...]

Byline: JEFFREY SIMPSON PREMIER'S COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC STRATEGY jsimpson@globeandmail.com Dead on arrival. Such is the fate that awaits the report from a blue-ribbon panel on Alberta's future. So radical is [...]