U.S. News and World Report used factors such as quality of life, job markets, cost of living and desirability to determine the best cities to live in. These categories include metrics like crime rates, air quality, migration trends and surveys. Using data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S….
An Indianapolis health care provider plans to expand its servi1ces to families experiencing homelessness after receiving a $2.5 million grant from Jeff Bezos’ Day 1 Families Fund. HealthNet, which runs a network of nine primary care centers in central Indiana for low-income clients, said the organization will use the money from Bezos to implement a…
Winter storms may be dumping snow in the frigid northern Plains, but South Florida has its own dusting of white with the fall proliferation of the pusley plant. The delicate flower dotting lawns and swales thrives during autumn’s drier months and can take over large swaths of grass stressed by insects, improper mowing, disease or…
The Earth’s magnetic North Pole is currently moving toward Russia in a way that British scientists have not seen before. Scientists have been tracking the magnetic North Pole for centuries, telling the British newspaper The Times that it had moved closer to the northern coast of Canada. In the 1990s, it drifted into the Atlantic…
President-elect Donald Trump named his new secretary of education, tapping former Small Business Administration head and former wrestling executive Linda McMahon for the position. The Education Department provides some funding for public schools, administers federal student aid programs and collects data on US education. Trump has vowed to close the department and redistribute most services…
WAUKESHA – The sound, of course, had a familiar ring, but the blast of wind instruments drove the point home more boisterously: the Salvation Army’s bell-ringing season had begun. On Friday, the Salvation Army Waukesha kicked off its Red Kettle campaign with a ceremony featuring the Salvation Army Band playing while invited guests rang miniature…
ASHEVILLE — A collaboration between governmental agencies and nonprofit and faith-based organizations is repurposing some of the remnants of Tropical Storm Helene’s destruction into use for local residents. As part of a project developed by FEMA’s Interagency Recovery Coordination, thousands of trees damaged by Helene will be repurposed under a state project, FEMA announced in…
The Mega Millions jackpot has risen to an estimated $387 million for Friday’s drawing after no one claimed the top prize on Tuesday. The winning numbers will be drawn just after 11 p.m. on Friday and we’ll have the results below. If someone has the lucky ticket for Friday night’s $387 million jackpot, they can…
In what Michigan Teamsters President Kevin Moore called a “resounding victory” for organized labor, about 63% of the registered nurses at eight Corewell Health hospitals in metro Detroit and its Southfield Center who voted this week supported unionization as Nurses for Nurses, a committee with the Michigan Teamsters Joint Council No. 43. “The vote is…
President-elect Donald Trump is making his Cabinet picks and raising eyebrows on both sides of the aisle with choices looking very different compared to his first White House administration. Trump most recently tapped environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nephew of the late Democratic U.S. President John F. Kennedy for the Health and Human Services…