The Fort Smith Board of Directors, bond underwriters, and federal officials agree that a sales tax reallocation plan to pay ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is looking to expedite the cleanup of nuclear waste left over from the Manhattan Project.

All three measures on the May 13 special sales tax election for the City of Fort Smith must pass in order for the city to ...

What is the EPA’s consent decree with Fort Smith? The consent decree is a legally binding agreement issued in 2015 that requires the city to make an estimated $480 million in improvements to ...

Since the city’s consent decree was entered more than six years ago, the independent monitoring team has often stressed that the Chicago Police Department must bolster its data collection and ...

The U.S. Department of Justice requested, for a second time, a 30-day extension to file materials related to the consent decree, which would guide police reform. The extension, which was approved ...

YOUNGSTOWN — City council authorized a final settlement agreement to a multi-million-dollar wastewater improvement dispute with the federal government. Council voted 7-0 Wednesday to permit the board ...

The Chicago Police Department made “significant strides” last year toward full compliance with the federal consent decree, even as the department was tasked with handling protests of the ...

Aki Nace has been a web producer for CBS Minnesota since 2019. She covers breaking news and makes short-form documentary films. Reg Chapman joined WCCO-TV in May of 2009. He came to WCCO from WNBC ...