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MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The City of Memphis is launching a new blight initiative. This new initiative will be spearheaded by the city's Community Enhancement Division, formed over the summer. Melanie Neal, ...

Some of downtown Burlington’s challenges feel intractable, such as the number of unhoused people living outside and the public signs of substance-use disorder. Others, like the pervasiveness of trash ...

A volunteer group called BTV Clean Up Crew has been collecting trash and littered syringes in Burlington since May. Organizers report a decrease in the number of syringes found during clean-ups, ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act requires states to pay a portion of food-stamp benefits for the first time starting in late 2027. Only states that have let large numbers of ineligible people get on ...

Data brokers are tracking everything from your home address to your phone number. Here's how to decide between scrubbing it yourself or letting a paid service wipe your digital footprint for you. I ...

A recent open letter to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (Strib Voices, Sept. 15) described a couple’s experience with their child being stuck with a needle left on the sidewalk in front of their home.

Washington – Yesterday Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that the EPA would retain and defend the rule designating PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances under the ...

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (WHTM) — Six years after the decommissioning officially began, workers are now making tangible progress on the clean-up of Three Mile Island Reactor 2, project leaders said Wednesday ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- When most people see trash piled up on streets or sidewalks, they drive or walk right by it, but one good Samaritan decided that just didn't sit right with him, and now, he's ...