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The state’s hourly pay rate is among the lowest in the nation, currently matching the nationwide minimum of $7.25, which has not increased since 2009.

A recent survey from Edelman’s Trust Barometer found 43% of people regret a health decision they have made because of inaccurate information.

Community leaders in Appalachia are urging the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure to keep up progress on advancing the bipartisan Fixing Emergency Management for Americans Act.

The federal agency responsible for providing natural disaster assistance to states will likely see its workforce slashed by thousands of jobs, according to new leaks from federal workers.

This is National Take Your Family to School Week, which aims to highlight the importance of parental engagement in a child's education.

War came home to the Commonwealth this week. Twenty-six-year-old Sgt, Benjamin Pennington of Glendale in Hardin County died of his wounds on Sunday, as a result of injuries he sustained during an Iranian attack at the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, according to the Pentagon.

ConocoPhillip's $8 billion Willow project in the Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve will move ahead. Biden put millions of acres off-limits to future oil drilling; environment groups aren't thrilled.

Nebraska voters faced opposing abortion proposals on the ballot and chose to keep the state’s current law and enshrine it into the constitution.

Harris County in Texas is home to Houston, and has tended to vote blue in the last decade. Republican state lawmakers recently passed bills that target how elections are run there.

Farmworkers are particularly vulnerable to the extreme heat that's affected so many areas of the country including the Midwest. The push for a federal heatprotection policy is slow.