Many local governments are turning to public land to address affordable housing shortages. A recent Chicago initiative aims to fill the city’s vacant lots with middle-scale housing. California has ...

The Graves-Hume Public Library will have more funds for its reading program this summer after the Mendota City Council approved a $6,000 donation. Fourth Ward Alderwoman Vicki Johnson said that the ...

USC forward Chad Baker-Mazara is no longer a member of the program, the school announced on Sunday. He was in his first season with the program after spending four seasons at three different schools ...

State Sen. Shannon Grove tore into the state librarian this week about what she said was $650,000 in “really, truly misappropriated” taxpayer money that was supposed to advance the work of a literacy ...

Reading programs in the Valley are an important resource for children. Here's how communities are building these initiatives. Iran unleashes massive attacks on day 13 of war Donald Trump reacts to ...

Plants pause their growth during stress, then press play when conditions improve, helping them recover and live on to produce food, according to a new study published in New Phytologist. UBC ...

A Wisconsin early childhood literacy nonprofit is helping parents and children make reading part of their daily routine, teaming up with libraries and clinics to give out “prescriptions to read” ...

McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski's video of a Big Arch burger taste test set off an ongoing social media scrum with fast-food brands piling on and some trying to change the narrative. As the March ...

Local business and property owners, developers and community partners gathered to learn how Reading’s new City Revitalization Improvement Zone, or CRIZ, could help drive redevelopment and investment ...