About 150 people gathered at the Virginia Horse Center in Lexington for Democratic congressional candidate Beth Macy .

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We asked readers to share stories about a moment of kindness involving a stranger. Here are some of their heartwarming anecdotes.

Berry’s belief that humans have a responsibility to care for God’s creation traces back to the Book of Genesis. So does an opposing argument for environmental exploitation.

Although it’s important that journalists practice diligence and deference, communities need to be willing to engage, forgive and voice concern.

Policy changes, climate disruption, staffing shortages and housing costs are reshaping the risks of owning or starting a gateway business.

Democratic socialists like AOC and Zohran Mamdani have made inroads in some cities. Republicans call them communists but the ideologies differ.

A survey from the Partnership for Public Service also found that a majority of Americans oppose the Trump administration’s changes to government.

WASHINGTON—Admitting that his prior beliefs regarding conflagrations had been formed out of ignorance, longtime U.S. Forest Service icon Smokey Bear issued a statement Monday claiming that his views o...

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The game, developed by the group of anonymous artists known as Secret Handshake, is available online and in person in Washington, DC.

In 2025, the Secretary of the Interior launched the largest reorganization in the agency's history. Has the initiative delivered the promised results?

Beth Macy is running for Congress because Roanoke and the Shenandoah Valleys deserve leaders who tell the truth about our challenges—and fight like hell to fix them.

The more than 75-year-old novel leads a curated Goodreads weekly list highlighting enduring classic books.

National Parks Traveler plans to shutter without new funding to continue its work.

ABC’s Jonathan Karl spoke with former USAID official Nicholas Enrich about his new book, “Into The Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID,” out Tuesday.

A new data analysis from the Partnership for Public Service reported various cost estimates of the Trump administration’s federal workforce overhauls.

George Orwell's writings warning of the dangers of totalitarian and authoritarian states gave the English language the term "Orwellian." A new documentary called "Orwell: 2+2=5” argues that Orwell's g...

Police say they are investigating other motives after the blast caused minor damage to the embassy building.

AUGUSTA, Maine – Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows sent an internal memo to employees instructing them to immediately report the presence of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ne...

Track the latest polls in the Maine U.S. Senate election.

“NPCA and park advocates across the country have been sounding the alarm on the need for park funding and staffing for months, and Congress listened." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO

Editor’s note: This is the first story in a two-part series recapping Colorado’s second year of wolf reintroduction.  Colorado’s wolf program was eventful from the start in 2025.  Just over a week int...

DNA from an animal shot in 2021 has proven that wolves do occasionally traipse into New York.

The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting is joining Journalism New England's Career Lab to recruit and train community journalists.

The National Park Service is introducing new fee structures, residency checks, and digital passes as part of its plans for America's 250th anniversary.

Wage cuts announced for Yosemite National Park employees come as reported new performance metrics raise ethical alarms for National Park Service leaders and employees.

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One NPS superintendent is warning that the agency is heading in the wrong direction.

Staff and funding cuts, hiring freezes, the erasure of history, and efforts to sell off public lands have plagued the National Park System during Trump's second presidential term.

The National Parks Conservation Association puts full-time Park Service employment at 12,600, down 24% since the start of the Trump administration.

The long-held notion that working in the National Park Service was a promising, even noble, career has been shaken to its core.

As memorial marks 100 years, Gerard Baker, park’s Native American ex-superintendent believes if Rushmore’s story is told the right way, ‘people are going to be leaving pissed’

SOUTHWEST HARBOR — The Wendell Gilley Museum and the Southwest Harbor Public Library are teaming up to host park ranger and award-winning poet Christian Barter at the museum on Tuesday,

With over 97% voting in favor at both locations, approximately 600 workers are joining the union.

On a warm July afternoon, Steve Smith sat outside a fish house in Otter Creek on Mount Desert Island, telling stories. There was the time it was “Blowin’ like a bastard from the north,” and his skiff ...

The cancellation comes after OPM indefinitely delayed FEVS earlier this year, due to the Trump administration’s “urgent” changes for federal employees.

ELLSWORTH — When Vana Carmona, a Portland resident, visited her family’s graves at a cemetery in Gorham in May 2014, she didn’t anticipate coming across a gravestone with an unknown

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An internal document shows that the department has expanded the number of units where federal employees could face dismissals based on details like

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Roosevelt Campobello International Park (RCIP) is facing a critical funding shortage as a result of an unresolved delay in part of the annual payment from the U.S. National Park Service (NPS).