The panel overseeing Vermont Yankee's decommissioning has little to say as a lease deal opens the door to a data center on the contaminated site. Read the story on VTDigger here: Vermont’s nuclear watchdog has gone quiet.
Most people experience the Legacy Trail as a quiet way to get outdoors. But this peaceful path once sounded very different. Trains roared through here, whistles announcing their arrival as steel …
The state gas tax is the price we pay to ensure that we have safe and reliable ways to get where we need to go, with sufficient funding to build, operate, and maintain the essential transportation infrastructure we all depend upon.
Thousands of book lovers swarmed the grounds of the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson for the 11th annual Mississippi Book Festival. The festival’s offerings ranged from the whimsical to the weighty, featuring celebrity authors and emerging writers whose work spanned many genres.
The League of Women Voters of Manatee County Government Committee observes Manatee County Commission meetings for items of interest to citizens and the League, and notes adherence to, or nonadherence …
The Republican and Democratic primary contests for Florida chief financial officer are now complete, setting up the general-election matchup between …
With Florida’s primary elections now behind them, Republican incumbent Wilton Simpson and Democratic nominee Joey Mendoza Atkins will face each other in the Nov. 3 general election …
The Stone County Correctional Facility re-entry program, called Pathway Home 5 that provides employment and re-entry training before and after release, has a waitlist as officials prepare to select the next group of participants.
New state program aims to increase opportunities to reuse and repair. Read the story on VTDigger here: ‘Mend it and keep it alive’: Inside Vermont’s growing repair culture.
Yes, Trump is moving fast to unwind federal air-pollution and climate safeguards, with many changes to take effect before Trump leaves office in January 2029. …
It will be a relatively quiet week in local government, with the Sarasota-Manatee Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and the Palmetto City Commission …
U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson and state Rep. Josh Turek both reiterated their calls for Congress to reduce fuel prices as they campaigned Friday for the state’s competitive U.S. Senate seat. At a news conference in Des Moines, Hinson reiterated her calls for the House to return to Washington, D.C., to work on lowering fuel prices […]
The Alabama Attorney General’s Office and TikTok Friday reached a settlement over a state lawsuit that alleged the social media platform addicted children and lied about the safety of its platform. The settlement, coming about a month after the social media platform settled a similar lawsuit with the federal government, requires TikTok to install features […]
Marylanders who buy individual healthcare plans on the state's insurance marketplace will see a second year of double-digit increases to their premiums, after state insurance officials approved a 14.6% average premium rate increase across plans in 2027.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger last week unveiled a package aimed at reining in the data center industry in the commonwealth, calling for tighter environmental regulations and for the industry to pick up more of the energy costs, among other proposals.
Young poets wrestled with loneliness, fractured families, violence and other challenges – but also showed an unwillingness to surrender to despair.
The Manatee County Commission District 1 race features Republican Liz Arnold and Democrat Sari Lindroos-Valimaki and will determine who serves the remaining two years in the seat vacated after Carol …
The red tide organism, Karenia brevis, was observed at very low concentrations in two samples from Northwest Florida and background concentrations in five samples from Southwest Florida. …
This article is also available in English. Read it here. Las compañías de seguros están comenzando a emitir nuevas pólizas en California después de años de reticencia debido al creciente riesgo de incendios forestales. El Departamento de Seguros del estado afirma que esto significa que las nuevas regulaciones del comisionado saliente Ricardo Lara, destinadas a […]
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