As federal funding stalls, local nonprofits like Boca Helping Hands continue to provide food assistance while uncertainty surrounds SNAP and WIC benefits.

Gov. Newsom's administration is closely monitoring the debate on health care spending, how the shutdown will impact the state's nine national parks, and the Trump administration's threat of mass ...

Across the Triangle, something remarkable is happening. In church basements, community centers and small offices scattered from Durham to Raleigh to Chapel Hill, visionary leaders are quietly building ...

Early this year, the state’s nation-leading energy efficiency program adopted a broader strategy to encourage more low-income households and tenants to tap into its benefits for heat pumps, insulation ...

Oct. 1—GRAND FORKS — UND hockey is entering a new era under head coach Dane Jackson. What will the program be like? The Herald asked Jackson's former UND players and teammates. "(They're going to be) ...

Houston ISD began the 2025-26 school year with about 1 in 4 teachers uncertified, an increase from the previous year, district records show. Nearly 2,500 out of HISD's 10,200 teachers were uncertified ...

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 could be just a few years away from colliding with the moon, and such an impact could have serious consequences.

The U.S. government has officially shut down, after a deadlocked Congress failed to pass a funding measure by Wednesday’s midnight deadline. It’s the first federal shutdown in more than six years.

The deadline is fast approaching for the first round of grants to develop Baltimore's vacant properties. As Todd Scott looks down East Federal Street in Broadway East, he envisions what he hopes the ...

Nearly half of U.S. Department of Agriculture employees will be furloughed during the federal government shutdown, though key programs that support nutrition, forest preservation and wildfire ...

If Christa Pike's execution is carried out, she would become the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years and the 19th woman executed in modern U.S. history.

Democrats warn of ACA premium spikes amid government shutdown debate while Republicans argue the program's subsidies highlight sustainability concerns with Obamacare.