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WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 50 businesses and non-profits — including rideshare companies Uber and Lyft, industrial giant 3M and automaker Honda — are pledging millions of dollars in initiatives to stem a crisis in road fatalities under a new federal effort announced late last week. It's part of the Department of Transportation's "Call to Action" [...]
DENVER (AP) — Every Colorado school district, like many across the country, began 2023 understaffed. That's caused classes to be crammed together, school bus routes to shrink, Spanish language courses to get cut from curriculums and field trips to be nixed. The situation has prompted lawmakers in Colorado and other states to suggest legislation that [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California released a plan this week detailing how Western states reliant on the Colorado River should save more water. It came a day after the six other states in the river basin made a competing proposal. In a letter to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, California described how states could conserve between [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The doors of a metal box slide open, and a drone rises over a gas well in Pennsylvania. Its mission is to find leaks of methane, a greenhouse gas, so that energy companies can plug the leaks and reduce the emissions that pollute the air. The drone is among an array [...]
NEW YORK — There are those for whom recycling and composting are not nearly enough, who have reduced their annual waste to almost zero, ditched their clothes dryer or given up flying, and are ready to take the next step in exploring the frontiers of sustainable living. For Manhattanite Josh Spodek, that has meant going [...]
Officials at Columbus State Community College have announced the school will construct a child-care center, serving the dual purposes of educating and training the next generation of child-care professionals and providing day care in the downtown area. Construction of the facility adjacent to the college’s Center for Workforce Development near Grove Street and Cleveland Avenue [...]
PORTLAND, Ore. — Inside a warehouse at the industrial Port of Portland lies what some believe could be the answer to Oregon's housing crisis — a prototype of an affordable housing unit made from mass timber. Once mass-produced at the factory being planned at the port, the units ranging from 426 square feet to 1,136 [...]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Nichole Mason first became concerned when she learned administrators at her children's public school were allowing transgender students to use girls' bathrooms. Her frustrations mounted when she felt her children's next school went too far with how they enforced COVID regulations during the pandemic. Now, the mother of five is [...]
NEW YORK — For decades, work on a massive rail project has been grinding 15 stories below the shuffling footsteps of millions of New Yorkers and beneath the East Hudson River and Manhattan skyscrapers. After years of delays and massive cost overruns, the enormously expensive railway project shuttled its first passengers last week from Long [...]
NEW YORK — Administrators of a trust fund established to preserve historic black churches in the United States recently revealed a list of houses of worship receiving $4 million in financial grants. The list of 35 grantees includes 16th Street Baptist Church Inc. in Birmingham, Ala., where crucial civil rights organizing meetings were held during [...]