High winds and dry conditions have significantly heightened the fire risk across Texas, prompting officials to warn of "extreme fire danger" in West Texas, stretching from the Big Bend region ...

Senate Bill 1118 would effectively end local government planning that protects rural areas from development. The bill also ...

NEW KENT – The array of local government buildings along a gentle bend of Virginia Route 249 — known in these parts as the New Kent Highway — tells you a lot about what New Kent County was ...

The playoffs for high school baseball are inching closer and closer, less than three weeks away now. Plus, the latest Florida ...

President Albritton has a unique understanding of the needs of rural communities and an appreciation for all our counties ...

Five years after the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic, Dr. Sara Cody — the Santa Clara County public health officer who led the Bay Area’s regional ...

The Safe Center LI, the main nonprofit serving Nassau County’s survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse, could close by the end of March with no agencies to immediately ...

A 14-year volunteer firefighter and financial analyst was sworn into the Nassau County legislature Monday — and vowed to focus on extinguishing blazes, instead of playing politics. Olena Nicks ...

Nassau County could spend an additional $3 million in taxpayer money on defending itself against two lawsuits opposing a casino resort proposal at the Coliseum. In a 4-3 party line vote on ...

A proposal for a 300-unit apartment complex on 12 acres of land in the ecologically-sensitive Wekiva Protection Area is confronting Seminole County with ... But they say the rural Wekiva ...

the Itasca County Board held a legislative conference call with Erik Simonson of the lobbying firm Flaherty and Hood to speak about emergency service funding for rural areas coming out of the ...