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As growth in North Texas booms amid a more extreme climate, solar energy is needed to help stabilize the state’s electrical ...

Protecting your mental health is tough amid anti-LGBTQ+ attacks, but here's some advice on how to stay safe during the next ...

Alexia Purkanto weighed less than two pounds when she was born. Now 16, she has donated to those who saved her life at York ...

Lightning strike at Businda Secondary School in Geita, tragically claimed the lives of seven students who were attending ...

Some councils are doing better than others when it comes to bringing Kent’s 8,000-plus empty properties back into use.

Melissa Best was woken up at 5 a.m. by a phone call from her brother, frantically saying, “Dad is on the floor and can’t get ...

The Michael Hinson Mission Grant support projects that honor the namesake's legacy in advocacy and health care.

West Virginia officials want abused kids placed with relatives. But for kids to recover, families need more help with the ...

Would the NFL stage a Super Bowl internationally? The usual answer is that America’s biggest sporting event is reserved for ...

The proposal includes new workforce facilities at Brooks, Port San Antonio and the South Texas Medical Center.

Everyone thought koalas were solitary creatures. But a new paper reveals there is more to the social lives of koalas than previously thought.