Ascutney Outdoors reinvigorates recreation hub in Upper Valley
Ascutney Outdoors volunteer Carl Hausler leads a group of students from Windsor’s State Street School on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Brownsville. Close to 75 students were on the hill…
Goodwine honored during Kentucky courts’ Black History Month Celebration
Pamela Goodwine speaks to supporters at her election night watch party in Lexington, Nov. 5, 2024. (Kentucky Lantern photo by Arden Barnes) The first Black Kentuckians to serve on the…
House pushes for Iowa grain indemnity updates, including credit sales
Iowa lawmakers are trying again to push through legislation to expand and update the state’s grain indemnity fund. (Photo by Lance Cheung/USDA) Iowa lawmakers advanced a bill from a House…
Bill banning golf courses, pickleball courts from state parks advances in the Senate
St Petersburg resident Caroline Chomaniacs at Honeymoon Island State Park in Dunedin on Aug. 27, 2024. (Photo by Mitch Perry/Florida Phoenix) The Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee unanimously advanced…
Republican abortion bill banned from Virginia’s 2025 legislative session
Virginia Capitol. Charlotte Rene Woods/ Virginia Mercury Del. Kim Taylor is “disappointed” that her abortion bill wasn’t docketed in Virginia’s 2025 legislative session, and therefore defeated without a chance for…
Arizona universities face massive cuts to medical research if Trump’s plan is implemented
University of Arizona medical school students perform research work in this undated photo. Photo courtesy University of Arizona College of Medicine If the Trump administration succeeds in implementing the steep…
Students with top test scores could get free tuition, stipends under House bill
Lawmakers moved a bill out of subcommittee Tuesday that would provide tuition and fee waivers and a stipend to students with top test scores. (Photo illustration via Getty Images) A…
Alabama House committee advances bill defining ‘sex-based terms’
Rep. Susan DuBose, R-Hoover, listens to a debate in the Alabama House of Representatives on April 18, 2023. A House committee on Tuesday approved a bill defining sex-based terms on…
Florida legislative leaders kicks off third special session on illegal immigration
Republican Sen. Joe Gruters (left), Senate President Ben Albritton (center), and Republican Sen. Randy Fine (right) hold a press conference on Feb. 11, 2025, to discuss the third special session…
Alaska students and school board members make emotional plea to legislators to boost school funding
Sitka high school students (right to left) Reagan Wingard, Francis Myers, Jasmine Wolf and Olivia Scan give testimony urging support for a boost in school funding before a joint session…