A partisan standoff over health care and spending has pushed the federal government to the brink of its first shutdown in nearly seven years. If lawmakers fail to act, the government will shut down at ...

Buz Ecker is a man of letters -- one a day to his three kids over the course of their lives. He started writing to his ...

Black unemployment climbed from 6.2% to 7.5% this year, while Black homeownership fell to the lowest level since 2021.

The USPS is once again offering its Operation Santa program, where kids can send letters to Santa and an army of volunteers ...

Parents I meet around the neighborhood have been talking to me about their frustration with school strikes. It is unfair to the kids and parents. People are also frustrated by the amount of money the ...

When a community helps build up a person, that person often comes back and helps build up that community in turn.

Last week the city of Farmington rescinded its contract offer to the city administrator search's top candidate, and then its alternate finalist withdrew from consideration. This week the City Council ...

I read Jack DeVine’s Aug. 23 opinion piece in the Aiken Standard and thought why is he apologizing for the actions of President Trump by calling him an imperfect leader? Mr. DeVine admits that ...

There are apparently plausible reasons to change one-way streets in Lancaster city to two-way streets, but I believe doing so would make driving more dangerous and frustrating. Pulling out from side ...

Scientists are warning that creating “mirror life,” a radical new concept in synthetic biology, could potentially have dangerous repercussions if such organisms escaped the lab, where they may cause ...

Re "I-73 between Columbus, Toledo would be a financial disaster" Aug. 18: Jason Warner is right, Ohio can't afford an I-73. Especially here in Chillicothe. It took us years and lots of help from lots ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Resume builder estimates 82% of companies use AI to review resumes. So, why shouldn't you use AI to update your resume? "Many are using AI tools that are looking for keywords, key ...