Now, $10,000 is barely pocket change for even the smallest local governments. But it could, say, pay for a modest wedding at a park overlooking the beach, or for a halfway decent used car, or for a ...

Dozens of tiny towns, settlements really, that once dotted Palm Beach County have disappeared through the years, buried under ...

Aldeman: In the 2023-24 school year, public schools added 121,000 employees, hitting a record high, even though enrollment ...

Researchers use models that combine how weather, topography and types of vegetation raise the risk that a fire will grow ...

With streaks of yellow, orange and red, Cal Fire’s new fire risk maps make plain the extent of fire danger in the Bay Area.

In presidential elections since 2016, only 28 of the 435 current House districts have backed nominees of different parties.— In next year’s House elections, districts that have been Electoral College ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection this week released new fire hazard severity zone maps for ... in El Dorado County. Previously, the vast majority of the city was cloaked in a ...

It was renamed Orange, giving credit to the massive citrus ... was some of the last in the county to be farmed. The junior water rights of the irrigation district placed citrus farmers on the chopping ...

A legislative compromise in Virginia's General Assembly means school zones across the commonwealth could soon host high-tech ...

Emergency declared in North and South Carolina as wildfires force evacuations - A blaze near Carolina Forest, a community ...

Following snowy weather and cold temperatures, the Town of Carrboro announced it is postponing Friday morning's grand opening ceremony.

March 8th, the city urges residents and commuters to stay informed about roadwork and potential travel disruptions.