The 18th Semiannual Report from the Independent Monitoring Team was filed Monday evening, detailing the progress the ...

In 2014, the City of Lima entered into a consent decree with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to address deficiencies and violations in the city’s stormwater and wastewater systems.

The Trump administration is increasingly using lawsuits, consent decrees and negotiated settlements as an express lane for ...

The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (March 3) approved the modification of a federal consent decree that, according ...

Takeaways In a March 3, 2026 opinion, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) concluded that an order issued under the Defense Production Act (DPA) will preempt contrary ...

Fort Smith officials completed a modification to the federal sewer consent decree, extending the deadline for required system ...

The Justice Department announced Wednesday it was canceling proposed consent decrees reached with Minneapolis and Louisville to implement policing reforms in the wake of the killings of George Floyd ...

A sanitary sewer construction project is set to begin in April along Tates Creek Road near the Gainesway area, with crews expected to work for approximately 18 months.

FOR YOU IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS. BUT ALSO BREAKING HERE AT HOME. THE NOPD CONSENT DECREE IS FINALLY COMING TO AN END AFTER MORE THAN 12 YEARS. THE FEDERAL JUDGE OVERSEEING THOSE REFORMS NOW AN AGREEMENT ...

This Wednesday and Thursday, U.S. District Judge Robert Dow Jr. will hold the first and only public hearing on the Chicago Police Department Consent Decree, which he's overseeing. From 9:30 a.m. to 3 ...