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Gov. Kathy Hohcul made it clear with her announced initiatives that she intends to make New York’s public higher education institutions more accessible. Among her declarations, she announced support for enhancing SNAP programs for students, making all students fill out their federal aid applications, and allowing direct admission for state high school students in the top 10 percent of their class.

The Gainesville Regional Utilities Authority board will meet with city officials before voting on whether or not to withhold $15.4 million in funding.

Government and a union in the health care sector representing more than 800 allied health professionals are gr...

ISLAMABAD: The caretaker government has prepared a plan to avoid protest against the privatization of electricity companies and has decided to impose Compulsory Service Act in all the Discos, NTDC...

Declares Discos, Gencos and National Transmission and Despatch Company as "essential services".

Gov. Wes Moore, facing resistance from other state and local leaders over his administration’s plan to trim $3.3 billion from Maryland’s six-year transportation spending plan, said Tuesday that he intends to restore $150 million of the anticipated cuts. The move — which includes reversing a plan to limit Baltimore’s outsize share of the state’s highway user revenues — would be funded with a ...

The state government is looking to reduce pressures on household budgets over the coming two years.

Victorian councils are calling for an independent review of the rate capping system after the state government lowered the cap.

They have been demanding to be reconginsed as formal government employees, an increase in wages, gratuity benefits and raisining retirement age to 62.

The state government said that the strike has caused a drop in attendance of pre-school children, pregnant women and lactating mothers at health centres.