Newfields weighs $500K bond to improve school traffic safety

The Newfields School Board is preparing a request to issue a bond of up to $500,000 to complete upgrades. The board will hold ...
Your Observer

Longboat Key Cops Corner: The Best of 2025

From back-from-the-dead raccoons to mysterious knives in the ground and a near HOA coup, Longboat Key police had a memorable ...

Sluggish hiring closes out a frustrating year for job seekers though unemployment slips to 4.4%

Employers added 50,000 jobs in December, nearly unchanged from a downwardly revised figure of 56,000 in November, the Labor ...

Zohran Mamdani becomes New York’s mayor on New Year’s Day. His administration is a work in progress

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is closing 2025 with a still-evolving image of the team that is going to help steer his government and enact an ambitious agenda to tackle the affordability ...

Does Kansas need its immigrants despite crackdown? Key business leaders say 'yes'

Ag and business leaders back President Trump on immigration but warn that Kansas - and consumers - would be poorer if 80,000 ...

Fire under Purdy Bridge started from cooking fire ‘out of control,’ officials say

Smoke was billowing over the Purdy Bridge after a cooking fire broke out underneath it, leading to significant traffic ...

Parma Fire Department’s gets safe haven baby box

PARMA, Ohio (WOIO) - The Parma Fire Department announced Wednesday the delivery of a Safe Haven Baby Box Drop Off. The system ...
FOX13 Memphis

'Successful surrender': Fire chief speaks on infant drop-off at a Safe Haven Baby Box

SUCCESSFUL SURRENDER' 👶 A tiny and innocent life was saved recently, thanks to a box outside a Mid-South fire station and a ...
The New York Times

Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments

Rural departments have long relied on cheap software solutions to keep their operations running. But fire chiefs report sharp price increases as investors have entered the market. By Mike Baker The ...