(Editor's note: This is part of a periodic series on civil service.) New York City employs a workforce that trumps the population of some U.S. cities with hundreds of thousands of people in its 80 ...

The state is shooting for a March civil-service exam in place of the one previously scheduled this weekend, Human Resources Division lawyers told a judge in a hearing. HRD “has already retained a ...

Boston firefighters are suing the state’s civil-service office and appealing to the commission in an effort to persuade a judge to force the recently scuttled test to go ahead. Four Boston jakes filed ...

Wilkes-Barre City Fire Chief Jay Delaney and Fire Civil Service Commission Chairman William Murtha have announced an upcoming fire civil service test and welcome anyone interested in becoming a city ...

New York Police Department sergeants allege in a lawsuit filed Thursday that cops have been able to scam their way toward receiving promotions by using an online cheat sheet containing the answers to ...

Like many local sheriffs' offices, Jefferson County is struggling to fill their open positions. They currently have three open deputy sheriff positions. The application deadline to take an upcoming ...

The state has canceled the upcoming fire civil-service promotional exam and “will not score” the recent statewide exam for police in light of a recent Boston-based court case. “Our members had the rug ...