But now, looming GOP-led funding cuts are concerning media allies that local public broadcasters would be forced to downsize or shutter, damaging news operations and hurting locals’ ability to get timely emergency alerts like the one issued in Alaska.

The cuts are expected to weigh most heavily on smaller public media outlets away from big cities, and it’s likely some won’t survive.

Public views are being sought on a proposal to merge two parish councils in Surrey. Caterham on the Hill and Caterham Valley parish councils currently run local events and services, including the Christmas lights, fun days and park activities. If successful, the authority's would merge into one town council covering all of Caterham.

Jr. and Omeed Malik rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange as renegades. They had just turned PublicSquare, a Yelp-like directory of con

A bill recently introduced to the state Senate would ban fluoride in Pennsylvania’s public drinking water, part of growing skepticism toward the naturally-occurring mineral that dental health experts have considered essential for decades.

Some radio stations in the state might go under after the U.S. Senate passed a bill that cuts more than $1 billion in funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The rescissions package the Senate approved early Thursday pulls more than $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) that provides federal funding for NPR and PBS.

M ore should have been done to inform the public about a fixed speed camera trial in North Yorkshire before it began, a council boss has said. The camera was installed on the A64 in Sherburn, near Malton, on 30 June and was due to go live the next day. However, just hours before the switch on, the camera was toppled in an act of vandalism.