The federal government is shut down after Congress failed to pass a measure Tuesday to temporarily fund the government, and while short-term effects seem to be limited, the shutdown could cause a ...

Worsening local effects on health and recreation in states like Minnesota and Wisconsin are spurring action on problems that also cause the Gulf of Mexico’s chronic “dead zone.” ELBA, Minn. – Jeff ...

More local officials than ever say in a new survey that political polarization is having a negative impact nationally, with those in larger communities seeing greater local effects — findings that ...