Husi Cázares, publisher at the new Desert Ink Press, and Linda Laird, director at Books for Classrooms in Green Valley. “If we want children to read, it’s important that they see themselves in their ...

Michigan schools have the highest rate of chronic absenteeism in the Midwest, but the state doesn't have a plan to fix the problem.

Local author Jocelyn Lacey has published her fifth children’s book, Michael’s Journey from Caterpillar to Butterfly, a story ...

Toby Fernald, a Saratoga resident and former trustee for the Museum of Art, started volunteering in 1986 and says that she ...

Texas Tech linebacker Jacob Rodriguez (center) hugs his wife Emma Rodriguez surrounded by friends and family.

Mrs Adams, because one day you made me a gift of/ daffodil bulbs,” ire’ne lara silva writes for the kind, elderly woman who drove her every day to kindergarten in South Texas. “Praisesong for Mrs ...

Oregon leaders closed brick-and-mortar schools five years ago as the pandemic swept the planet. The switch to remote learning, as well as Oregon’s delayed return to in-person and hybrid classes, aimed ...

Kenia Jackeline “Jackie” Merlos, a Portland woman with a pending immigration documents, was detained for four months by United States immigration authorities. But with help from a secret message in a ...

The 2025 We Energies Cookie Book will be available online starting Nov. 1. This is the 97th anniversary of the first We Energies Cookie Book. The tradition began as a way to promote electric ...

Other peoples have risen. Other peoples have risen up to defend their rights, their dignity, and their democracies. In the past 50 years, they’ve done it in Poland, South Africa, Lebanon, South Korea, ...

October 14, 2025; Washington, D.C. – On October 18, NPR will launch Books We've Loved, a new limited series from the team that produces NPR's Book of the Day podcast. This series invites listeners to ...

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