Central Idaho fire restrictions issued; firefighters report gains in Bench Lake, Texas wildfires
A firefighter monitors scooper planes over the Fishhook Creek drainage as crews fight the Bench Lake Fire in central Idaho on July 21, 2024. (Courtesy of Clay Stephens/ nteragency InciWeb…
Flood recovery centers opening this week in Barre and 3 towns
A home along the Winooski River is seen after being damaged during flooding overnight in Plainfield on Thursday, July 11, 2024. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The state’s emergency management team…
Texas company sidesteps charity care requirement to reopen St. Dominic’s mental health unit
A for-profit, Texas-based company will reopen the shuttered St. Dominic’s psychiatric unit by the end of the year, though it will not have to provide the level of charity care…
Like carbon dioxide, this Louisiana task force’s work is deep underground
Residents in communities surrounding Lake Maurepas in southeast Louisiana have voiced passionate opposition to a carbon capture and sequestration project that could pump 5 million tons of carbon dioxide underneath…
With legislation and litigation, Vermont joins a battle against pharmaceutical middlemen
Attorney General Charity Clark speaks during a press conference at the Statehouse in Montpelier on June 18, 2024. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Last week, Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark announced…
U.S. Secret Service director resigns amid fury over agency failures in protecting Trump
United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. The day before, Cheatle testified before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee on the attempted assassination of…
N.C. Office of Recovery and Resiliency touts affordable housing successes
NCORR and City of Greenville officials attend ribbon cutting ceremony at Arlington Trace. (Photo: NCORR) The N.C. Office of Recovery and Resiliency (NCORR) is reporting that it has spent $51.2…
Mass. Gov. Healey keeps pulling up the emergency shelter system’s welcome mat
Gov. Maura Healey. (Image via Governor’s Office Flickr feed) Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey continued her makeover of the state’s emergency shelter program in a bid to make it less welcoming…
Democratic delegates swiftly give Harris enough support to clinch presidential nomination
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris attends an NCAA championship teams celebration on the South Lawn of the White House on July 22, 2024 in Washington, D.C. President Joe Biden abandoned…
Nepotism claims against Cranston Mayor Hopkins dismissed
The Rhode Island Ethics Commission on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, dismissed a complaint against Cranston Mayor Kenneth Hopkins filed by a former city worker accusing Hopkins of nepotism in the…