Students and faculty are trying to save Portland Community College’s modernized music program that could soon disappear.

Virginia lawmakers are a step closer to setting up paid family medical leave for up to 12 weeks — ensuring people are ...

Dental amalgam fillings have a bad rap. Advocates argue they are toxic and can harm people. But how common are they?

WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY: Good afternoon and happy Thursday, readers! In fun Olympic news, ski mountaineering (skimo) made its historic debut at the Milan games today. ⛷️🏅🏔️ The new sport is ...

Excellence, leadership, and lasting impact define the seven inductees named to the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame Class of ...

The reigning world champion and Richmond native delivered a stellar short program that featured a triple lutz-triple loop, the hardest combination that any woman tried Tuesday night ...

Long assumed by some to have been diluted and washed away over time, mercury contamination from 19th-century gold mining is ...

The federal agency that provides health care to Native Americans and Alaska Natives has announced it will phase out the use ...

In May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space, a short suborbital mission that proved humans could survive launch, weightlessness, and reentry. Behind the calm headlines was Project ...

In an effort to boost local employment, San Mateo County approved at least $2 million this week to launch a hiring initiative aimed at linking recent graduates and other job seekers with local ...

Commercial dog foods contain high levels of lead, arsenic, mercury, cadmium and plastic toxins, according to laboratory tests by a nonprofit organization.

Mercury, the smallest planet in the solar system, holds an outsized secret that some researchers believe could reshape how ...