Borrowers interested in graduate school will also face changes in the student-loan environment next year thanks to the Republican megabill. Previously, graduate-student borrowers could borrow up to ...

State officials received notice Tuesday night that the feds were freezing funding for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families ...

Ward 8 Education Council demands investments in socioemotional learning as DBH proposes changes to school-based behavioral ...

The early care and education field has experienced an eventful — sometimes tumultuous — year, placing it repeatedly in the ...

The bill stopped Summit Carbon Solutions from using eminent domain for its Midwest Carbon Express Pipeline, a five-state, $8 billion project that would capture carbon dioxide emissions from 57 ethanol ...

People who live at Summit Transitional Housing learn to build a support system through education and connections.

He is a brilliant political talent with dizzying ambitions to change the city. Is he ready for the actual job, though?

From neighborhood streets underwater to billion-dollar redevelopment deals, and from classrooms under pressure to courtrooms ...

Many of the stories that are covered during the year don’t resolve themselves in a neat, tidy package in the course of one ...

In the third quarter of 2025, Visit Walla Walla reported it experienced a slight decrease in tourism from the year prior.

How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nation’s sprawling bureaucracy.

The July-December Ogle County Life Year in Review will run in the Monday, Jan. 12, 2026 edition.