“I grew up as a free-meal student. I know what it’s like,” said Stacey Fager, USD 257 superintendent of schools, at Monday night’s school board meeting. “Providing free meals for all of our students is…

No one shows off a new gadget quite like Apple. But the device that Tim Cook unveiled on June 5 was billed as something more significant. The Vision Pro, a pair of sleek glass goggles,…

Because the Supreme Court took a right turn during the Trump years — and particularly after it overturned Roe v. Wade last year — conservative activists have hoped that the court would repudiate many old…

It’s official: The Saudis own golf. Tuesday’s bombshell announcement that the PGA Tour will merge with LIV Golf, Saudi Arabia’s multi-billion-dollar image-restoration project, is nothing less than the surrender of a storied American sports tradition…

Smoke obscured Washington’s skies again on Wednesday, wafting in from wildfires raging across Canada. Further risks emerged uncomfortably close to D.C., after the National Weather Service on Tuesday declared a critical fire weather outlook for…

 The flat tax is dead. Long live the flat tax.  That’s the attitude of Kansas Republicans these days.  Having failed in their attempt to upend the state’s tax system in favor of high earners —…

Imagine a man trying to suavely smoke in front of a woman — with the words “cigarettes cause impotence” stamped along the length of the actual cigarette. Other health effects of smoking are more dire,…

California officials are considering filing civil and criminal charges for what they call “state-sanctioned kidnapping” against whoever is responsible for flying migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border region to Sacramento on two planes the last few…

Adapting to change requires one to be flexible and ready when a new situation arises. Missouri River Regional Library followed that path this week when facing a new state rule that requires public libraries to…

Monday evening, Humboldt city council members unanimously approved going for a high-powered electric vehicle charging station on the downtown square primarily by means of a federal grant, noting how it would draw EV users to…