This year, a newly formed youth book club decided to make the festive season both special and educational by hosting a Christmas-themed spelling bee competition. Hillshaven librarian Lydia van Aswegen ...

As if deadly snakes, spiders and sharks were not enough, Australia now has a new creepy critter: a "lucifer" bee with devil-like horns. The species, dubbed Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer, was found ...

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GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — The Gwinnett Stripers, the Triple-A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves, launched Hooked on Books, the team’s first free reading program for elementary-aged students in Gwinnett ...

In “The Heart-Shaped Tin,” the British food writer Bee Wilson offers a bittersweet ode to the everyday tools we use in the kitchen, along with stories great and small. By Irina Dumitrescu Irina ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A community-wide reading program in Washington County is hoping to bring together book-loving neighbors. The Beaverton City Library system has announced its ‘One Book, One ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded Washington state over $4 million to boost specialty crops in 2025. This funding, through the Specialty Crop Block Grant program, aims to ...

Families of San Francisco children under the age of 5 can sign up to get a free book mailed to them once a month as part of a decades-old literacy program now debuting in The City. The San Francisco ...

GENESEE COUNTY, MI – A pair of Flint organizations have been told a program that has put thousands of free books into the hands of area children is on an indefinite pause. In a letter to families, ...

BRILLION (WLUK) -- Bumblebees lead the way in AriensCo's conservation efforts. The company’s 250-acre property sits between its two plants. "It takes years to develop some of the plants, to get them ...

For more than 50 years, the Prison Book Program has been built on one simple idea: Everybody deserves the freedom to read. The Quincy-based nonprofit sends tens of thousands of free books each year to ...

Green careers — jobs that contribute to conservation and sustainability — can be challenging to break into. In 2024, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) found that women hold only one-third of green ...