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The most important stories are often the ones that never trend nationally: a Mississippi town rebuilding two years after a devastating tornado, a Kansas newspaper whose offices were raided by its own police, and a Baltimore program selling vacant homes for $1. Trill News covers local news, small towns, and community stories from the places and people that mainstream media overlooks.
The system is being launched about two years after Gov. Josh Shapiro signed Act 122 of 2024, which required the PCCD and Pennsylvania State Police to establish an online tracking system to allow sexual assault survivo...
Read article →A Cole County Circuit Court judge will decide whether to strike down a 2024 law allowing charter schools in Boone County, a case that could further define Missouri’s constitutional ban on special laws. In a hearing Tu...
Read article →Both Michigan gubernatorial candidates — Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Republican U.S. Rep. John James — have floated suspending the gas tax on some level —federal or state — as affordability at the...
Read article →Starting Oct. 1, about 14,000 people living in North Carolina who were admitted to the United States for humanitarian reasons will no longer have comprehensive health insurance coverage through Medicaid. The provision...
Read article →U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor nominee for governor, leaned on her knowledge of Big Ten sports to embarrass a Republican colleague Tuesday over the otherwise weighty matter of President Donald Tr...
Read article →WASHINGTON — The three news organizations that President Donald Trump barred from entering the White House grounds earlier this month have asked a federal judge to ensure their reporters continue to have access after ...
Read article →Dr. Ellen Essick said there is a lot of good news about mental health in the 2025 North Carolina High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey. But there are areas that clearly need attention when it comes to the overall wel...
Read article →Challenges for Maryland's electricity markets are many -- rising prices, surging demand, stalled projects -- but the answer is readily available in the form of grid-connected battery storage, writes Bruce Daggy, who s...
Read article →Nonprofit leaders say that state law needs to be modernized to allow charitable gaming operations to accept electronic payments for small games of chance, such as raffles.
Read article →Seventeen additional members of the Michigan Democratic Party on Tuesday joined a growing roster of Jewish voters who say they still have concerns about Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed — including state ...
Read article →The constitutional amendment that would reduce non-school homestead property taxes is the biggest policy proposal on the 2026 statewide ballot. Amendment 3 would raise the homestead exemption on non-school taxes to $1...
Read article →Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet on Tuesday designated the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and two other organizations as domestic terrorist groups. They also added more than 90 federally designa...
Read article →The Nevada State Assembly is currently composed of 27 Democrats and 15 Republicans. Will that split change this year? Maybe. But if it does, it isn’t expected to shift by much. With the exception of a 2014 “red wave” ...
Read article →Voters narrowed the field of candidates vying to represent Las Vegas City Council Ward 2 during the June primary, now the top two voter-getters will get a rematch in November. Former Clark County firefighter Luke McCa...
Read article →For us locals, Aurora Reservoir is a point of pride, home to some of the cleanest tap water in the nation. Now, it’s become emblematic of a broader struggle shaping the future of the American West. When we formed Save...
Read article →The Virginia Board of Education has approved new rules for assessing student learning in subjects without statewide Standards of Learning tests, giving schools another way to measure whether students have mastered the...
Read article →Louisiana officials have been slow to identify and punish violations of federal climate laws in the Lake Charles area, according to environmental groups. In response, the state Department of Environmental Quality call...
Read article →The U.S. Department of Justice has charged four additional noncitizens with crimes related to registering to vote and voting in the 2022 or 2024 elections in Pennsylvania.
Read article →The nation is keeping an eye on Ohio’s November general election, particularly the governor’s race and those at the top of the ballot. But no matter who is elected to be the next governor, as secretary of state, or to...
Read article →This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Michigan’s free newsletter here. LANSING, Mi...
Read article →Questions about labor protections, traffic and taxpayer costs filled a packed hearing Tuesday night in Largo, as the Prince George’s County Council heard from the public about the proposed Sphere at National Harbor.
Read article →The Office of Inspector General for Health did almost 1,400 audits and investigations over the last four years and found more than $42 million in improper or unrecovered payments -- but those reports have only recentl...
Read article →This story is made possible through a partnership between Interlochen Public Radio and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. A decades-old contaminated groundwater plume from industrial chemicals in Ant...
Read article →In a crowded school cafeteria in Cumberland Monday evening, residents of the rural county gathered to hear Dominion Energy representatives detail the gas plant the utility is pitching to the local leaders and state re...
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