Families sue Vermont DCF over LGBTQ+ foster care requirements
Chris Winters chats before the Vermont Democratic Party’s unity press conference in Montpelier on Aug. 30, 2022. File Photo by Natalie Williams/VTDigger Two Vermont couples are suing the state’s Department…
White nationalist, anti-LGBTQ activity on the rise, annual hate report shows
One of the hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the “alt-right” who marched during the “Unite the Right” rally Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Southern Poverty…
As mpox cases rise, experts urge complete, 2-part vaccinations
Nicolle Baird, a federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fellow, works on a real-time polymerase chain reaction analysis to better understand mpox at a laboratory in Ghana in 2022.…
How shots instead of pills could change California’s homeless crisis
Dr. Rishi Patel from the Akido street medicine team checks on an unhoused man living in a vineyard in Arvin on May 28, 2024. Street medicine teams throughout California are…
Bird flu’s spread from poultry to cattle to humans provokes worry among feds, states
The USDA has performed more than 17,000 tests for avian influenza on cattle, with a total of 67 herds affected throughout nine states. (Getty Images) Dairy farmers throughout the country…
White nationalist, anti-LGBTQ activity on the rise, annual hate report shows
One of the hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the “alt-right” who marched during the “Unite the Right” rally Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Southern Poverty…
Love tapped to fill Montgomery County Senate vacancy
The Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee Monday nominated Del. Sara Love to fill the vacant District 16 seat. Del. Sara Love (D-Montgomery). File photo by Bryan P. Sears. Love, first…
O’Donnell retires after eight years on Public Service Commission
Maryland Public Service Commissioner Anthony J. O’Donnell, who has been a member of the Maryland Public Service Commission for nearly eight years, retired on June 1, the commission said. Public…
Damaged by flooding, Vermont’s water systems get new pot of federal funds
Mobile homes in Mountain Home Trailer Park in West Brattleboro are surrounded by water on July 10, after heavy rainfall caused the Whetstone Brook to breach its banks. File Photo…
U.S. House GOP spotlights immigration effects on schools as Biden issues asylum order
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, April 18, 2024. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans on Tuesday argued that migrants coming from the southern…