ACAP, in collaboration with several community partners, is making significant strides toward establishing a new community action agency.

As the government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight. “You have to negotiate,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, the independent from Vermont, argued late into the evening on ...

After traveling extensively with Amtrak, I've learned some surprising things about train travel — and I even enjoy sitting next to strangers.

The Tennessee state representative explains why he is facing off against Steve Cohen to be the Democratic nominee to represent the Memphis area in Washington.

Years of budget mismanagement have drained the county’s finances and led commissioners to ask voters for permission to issue bonds to refinance debt and keep services running.

It’s unclear how the impasse will end, even as hundreds of thousands of federal workers are going unpaid and many government services are slowed or suspended.

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→ The Community Health Center Program ’s funding lapsed at the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. Extending funding at current levels would cost roughly $4.3 billion on an annualized basis. Community ...

AUGUSTA, Maine — MaineGeneral Health has expanded its Horizon Program to provide HIV/AIDS services in 14 of Maine's 16 counties, the hospital system announced Tuesday. The program's service area now ...

Campaigns opposing voter ID and supporting a 'red flag' law current hold big fundraising advantages over their opponents heading into the Nov. 4 election.

“If Republicans govern by poll and fail to grab this moment, they will own it,” wrote Texas Rep. Chip Roy, a Republican, in a letter published in the The Wall Street Journal over the weekend. He ...

The Taliban said the blackout was due to upgrades to Afghanistan’s infrastructure. Was the blackout therefore merely due to technical ineptitude? Maybe. But even if so, the Taliban is very obviously ...