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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials have slated millions of dollars for rural water projects in several states, with the Biden administration looking to shore up infrastructure needs made more urgent by long-term drought conditions. The U.S. Interior Department announced Thursday that $420 million will be spent on projects in New Mexico, Minnesota, Montana, North [...]
The Equine Affaire, one of central Ohio’s most popular annual events that typically draws in thousands of out-of-towners, will allow the public to attend for the first time in three years when it starts Thursday at the Ohio Expo Center. The previous two years the event did not allow public attendance due to the COVID-19 [...]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York looks poised to become the next place to give a huge subsidy to a professional sports arena, despite questions about whether the civic pride of having a team justifies giving so much public money to a private business. Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed a deal Monday that would give the [...]
NEWRY, Maine (AP) — The race is on to produce more lithium in the United States. The country will need far more lithium to achieve its clean energy goals — and the industry that mines, extracts and processes the chemical element is poised to grow, but it also faces a host of challenges from environmentalists, [...]
In Milwaukee, one of two cities vying to host the Republican presidential convention in 2024, Democrats were pilloried by the potential visitors after predawn election results delivered Wisconsin for Joe Biden in the 2020 White House race. Rival Nashville, Tenn., is run by a mayor whose Democratic brother was effectively redistricted out of his congressional [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — As coronavirus infections rise in some parts of the world, experts are watching for a potential new COVID-19 surge in the United States — and wondering how long it will take to detect. Despite disease monitoring improvements over the last two years, they say, some recent developments don't bode well: —As [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying government restrictions have done little to slow down central Ohio’s construction industry. The number of construction workers in the region has not only returned to pre-pandemic levels, but has substantially exceeded them, according to figures from the Associated General Contractors of America. The year preceding the pandemic, the number [...]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Even though only a small percentage of Walt Disney Co. workers participated in a walkout Tuesday, organizers felt they had won a moral victory with the company issuing a statement denouncing legislation that sparked employee outrage. Throughout the day, pockets of employees staged demonstrations at various sites across the country, including [...]
ASBURY PARK, N.J. (AP) — A wave of new electric vehicle charging stations across the country is coming as interest in alternatives to gasoline-powered vehicles is on the rise and could heighten further due to a global spike in gasoline prices. Though most of the plans were in the works before already high gas prices [...]
The return to classrooms for the nation's school children has not meant a return to work for many of their parents who, with workdays that outlast school days, are finding crucial after-school programs in short supply. School-based providers list difficulties hiring and retaining staff as the biggest reasons they have not fully rebounded from pandemic [...]