Politics

The new chairman of the Mississippi Senate Corrections Committee inherited a challenging job — sharing oversight of a prison system rocked by violence and burdened by decrepit and underfunded facilities....

In a poverty-ridden state plagued with dismal health outcomes, Louisiana's health department has set a big goal to improve citizens' health, trying to help people access services no matter their...

Connecticut state legislators could soon move to regulate toxic compounds found in drinking water. High levels of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, collectively called PFAS, have been found in drinking water...

Dena Lowell typically employs about 12 full-time people to work in her restaurant and catering company. That is, until Super Bowl week. She's needed a lot more help over the...

The San Diego region will get $300 million in federal funding for a new U.S. facility to capture sewage spills from Mexico before they foul shorelines north of the border,...

Nearly a month after Iran launched a rare direct military attack against United States forces in Iraq, an uneasy quiet has settled across the Mideast. Watching fighter jets roar off...

Officials are set to make a final decision this week on a land use regulation change that would open the door to a South Dakota company building a wild horse...

A Washington state cannabis farm was used in a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, federal officials said. The scheme took in $4.85 million from investors, many using retirement funds or family loans,...

“Bad Boys of Life” went for a three-peat at the box office during Super Bowl weekend. The Sony Pictures' film starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence brought in $17.6 million...

At Rosendale Dairy, each of the 9,000 cows has a microchip implanted in an ear that workers can scan with smartphones for up-to-the-minute information on how the animal is doing...

Voters in Bennington will consider in March whether the town should impose a 1 % local option tax. The select board decided this week to place the tax plan on...

The PGA Tour joined players with a 16th-hole tribute to Kobe Bryant on Sunday at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, using his two Lakers uniform numbers to cut the final-round...

A University of New Hampshire expert on kiwiberries is going to give a crop overview, best production practices and information on market potential on the grape-sized fruit. The Kiwiberry Breeding...

An ambitious to-do list awaits Connecticut lawmakers when they return Wednesday to the state Capitol for a roughly three-month election-year legislative session. While changes to the second year of the...

At a small school in rural western Montana, Mandela van Eeden stood at the front of a classroom, pointing to Australia on a large world map. On a table beside...

Before Brandon English developed his own learning materials for the organic chemistry classes he teaches at Red Rocks Community College, his students were spending close to $600 for textbooks, in...

Kim Smith knew from the start that video remote interpreting was going to become a problem. “I remember seeing that and thinking that is not going to work,” Smith, who...

The inspector general of Chicago Public Schools, whose investigations led to the removal of two former CEO's, faces scrutiny himself for allegedly berating employees. Complaints about Nicholas Schuler have led...

Interstate 15 crossing southern Nevada from California to Arizona has become the first route in the U.S. West to be designated as an electric vehicle corridor with charging stations available...

Parishes west of Louisiana's capital city will see expanded high-speed internet connections as part of a $15 million federal project to improve online access in rural communities. The U.S. Department...

Missouri lawmakers this session are trying to make it easier for military spouses and out-of-state doctors, teachers, pharmacists and other licensed professionals to get jobs in the state. Legislation approved...

A U.S. woman who said she was visiting England to do a study of the late World War II codebreaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing walked into the prestigious boys'...

Leaders of a city in eastern Mississippi are debating how to pay for street paving and other infrastructure projects. Meridian public works director Hugh Smith is looking for city leaders...

Lake Elementary School, just a half-hour drive northeast of San Francisco, is a relic from 1957. Much of the school's scuffed flooring is old linoleum that contains asbestos, as does...

A Boston investment firm officially purchased Saddleback Mountian ski area. Arctaris Impact Fund completed the reported $6.5 million sale Friday afternoon, said Andy Shepard, the resort's future general manager. The...

A prosecutor is appealing to the South Carolina Supreme Court a lower court's ruling that the state's forfeiture laws are not legal. Last year, Circuit Judge Steven John ruled the...

Roughly one month after the federal government announced a new crackdown to keep e-cigarettes away from children, state lawmakers in Iowa and Nebraska are forging ahead with similar proposals of...

China's central bank announced plans Sunday to inject 1.2 trillion yuan ($173 billion) into the economy to cushion the shock to financial markets from the outbreak of a new virus...

Energy Northwest is considering whether there is a need and regional interest for adding a small modular nuclear reactor system near the Tri-Cities. Energy Northwest already operates the only commercial...

Nina Olson is the former National Taxpayer Advocate, where she represented the voice of the taxpayer within the IRS and before Congress for 18 years. As part of her job,...

Two nonprofit organizations in Chicago have launched a state-funded legal aid program designed to help thousands of immigrants, former inmates and low-income people across Illinois. The program is called Access...

When the Peterson family was told 20 years ago the federal government would need its land to build a new, wider Deep Creek Bridge in Chesapeake, it abandoned any ambitious...

Like Capt. Quint in the movie “Jaws,” Aaron Yeager needed a bigger boat. Now he has one, and with it he'll be able to create more and bigger fish habitat...

Brandywine Valley SPCA's ongoing effort to prevent euthanization of adoptable pets in high-kill shelters in America's south touched down in Georgetown on Jan. 25. More than seven dozen dogs airlifted...

Two days after Brexit, British officials pushed the European Union on Sunday for a Canada-style free trade arrangement as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson geared up for a key speech...

This week, the US will mark another ‘cultural milestone' as cross-dressing males will appear in an advert during Super Bowl LIV. Why do companies continue pandering to radical liberal agendas...

Within the Democrats' sprawling presidential contest is a smaller, yet critical competition among a handful of candidates jockeying to secure the backing of their party's establishment wing. The first answers...

These days 72-year-old Ken Stoll spends most of his time restoring cars in his Fernandina Beach shop, and, with wife Jennifer, traveling the country in a tour-bus size motor home....

Airbus SE has long since disbanded the so-called strategy and marketing unit at the center of its record $4 billion bribery settlement, but for years it had quite a heyday....

While many community business owners and institutions are raising new infrastructure to meet the needs of today's consumer market, others are busy working on structures that are currently standing, or...