A study in Springfield, Mo. shows that hiring local workers on the city’s public works projects would increase sales at local businesses by $71 million, save or create 400 jobs and increase local tax ...

Through the efforts of Calvert County’s elected officials and business leaders a better opportunity for local vendors to work within their home jurisdiction could become more plausible. On Tuesday, ...

When considering bids on contracts, the Suffolk County Water Authority is now giving preference to local small businesses. The new policy was adopted at the SCWA board meeting on July 26 by unanimous ...

NASHUA — Frustrated that a local sporting goods company lost a contract bid with the Nashua School District because of a $1 difference, a city alderman is proposing an ordinance that would give ...

The City Council on Thursday approved changes to an ordinance that should help local businesses and those owned by veterans more easily win city contracts. Council members celebrated the updates as ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A Phoenix-based conservative advocacy group is suing Tucson over the city’s contracting preference for local businesses. The suit filed Friday by the Goldwater Institute in Pima ...

The Tucson City Council will soon consider an ordinance to give Tucson businesses a 5-point bonus preference in the scoring system used to evaluate bids to provide goods and services to the city.