Domain searching
Government websites end in the domain name .gov (e.g., the District of Columbia website is https://dc.gov/).
You can use the domain search feature in Google to search for information on government websites, limiting your search results only to sites that end in .gov. Enter your keywords, then type site:.gov.
Examples:
water quality site:.gov
urban agriculture site:.gov
Site searching
A helpful tool to find state and local government materials is Google's site search, where you search for information within a specific government website. For example, to search for the required qualifications for a District of Columbia mayoral candidate on the DC city website, we could structure a Google search like this:
qualifications mayoral candidate site:dc.gov