Rice-Eccles Stadium on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City is pictured on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch) WASHINGTON — A…
Signs on the Rio Ruidoso covered in mud from previous flooding at the bridge, captured Aug. 20, 2024. (Danielle Prokop / Source NM) People will have two opportunities this weekend…
Voters at the Agricultural Service Center in Buckingham, Va., Nov. 3, 2020. (Parker Michels-Boyce / For the Virginia Mercury) Starting Friday, voters across Virginia can begin casting their ballots in…
File cabinets. (Getty) The Mercury’s efforts to track FOIA and other transparency cases in Virginia are indebted to the work of the Virginia Coalition for Open Government, a nonprofit alliance…
“I think everybody did the best they could. I’m not saying teachers didn’t teach, and I’m not saying kids didn’t try to learn,” said said Beth Carlson, a longtime English…
An aerial photo of the James River. (Courtesy of Evan Visconti) A new program that scientists have sought to make Chesapeake Bay clean up more effective is now underway in…
(Clockwise): A Leelenau County farm, the Renaissance Center in Detroit, the Mackinac Bridge and Grand Rapids’ downtown | Susan J. Demas and Getty photos There really is no such thing…
The state Capitol. (Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury) • “Virginia Department of Elections receives package with ‘suspicious white substance’ inside.”—WRIC • “Incorrect mail-in ballots sent to more than 7,000 Virginia Beach homes,…
New Hampshire has allowed several documented instances of officers maintaining their certifications after misconduct and finding work with other law enforcement agencies. (Getty Images) This story is being co-published by…
Braxton Winston II, the Democratic candidate for commissioner of labor, sits on a panel at the NC State AFL-CIO convention in Raleigh on Sept. 19, 2024. (Photo: Galen Bacharier) The…