This decision follows a contentious debate, including allegations of misinformation spread by private interests against the project. The Ohio Power Siting Board has approved a contentious ...

Selection method See also: Judicial selection in the states The members of the Texas Justice of the Peace Courts are elected in partisan elections and serve four-year terms. They are elected in a ...

Property taxes in Texas are assessed annually, per the comptroller's office, and are based on the appraised value of a property as determined by the local county appraisal district.

The Texas House preliminary approved a bill requiring annual property reappraisals. The vote comes after the Tarrant County Appraisal District adopted a plan for valuations every two years.

Knox County District Attorney General Charme Allen has recused herself as the Tennessee Comptroller's Office investigates the Knox County Government offices, including the Trustee's Office.

Harris County's system for appraising property values in Houston is designed to be contested. But why are property taxes in Texas so high in the first place?

Knox County voters shrunk the Republican majority on the Knox County Commission, but not by the margin for which they were hoping. Fourth District voters in the Aug. 1 election flipped their ...

Knox County Trustee Justin Biggs is the target of a state watchdog investigation into his spending of taxpayer dollars.

What happens after a Knox County elected official gets in legal trouble? The short answer? Nothing. Unless constituents go through the lengthy process of filing an ouster suit or a recall petition ...

Several experts took the witness stand before prosecutors rested their case in the manslaughter trial of a former Knox County sheriff charged in a crash that claimed a toddler’s life in 2023.

Tarrant County area school districts and city leaders advocated for annual appraisals during a Legislative hearing on bills responding to the Tarrant Appraisal District.