Hometown Headlines: Research shows that communities with less local news have higher levels of loneliness. Here, café customers read the Midcoast Villager, a weekly newspaper serving Midcoast Maine.

Pender County is at risk of losing up to $140,000 in state sales tax revenue distributions after missing the deadline to submit its annual financial audit to the state. A family of four is displaced ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The Endowment announced a new grant writing support initiative at its semiannual public meeting and board listening session June 3. The program will support up to 15 New ...

An eye-opening look into how writing a truth-revealing novel can instantly draw government backlash and an official designation. This video delves into the chilling reality of modern state censorship, ...

Every internet search, streamed video and AI-generated response depends on a data center somewhere. Driven by rapid growth in artificial intelligence, cloud computing and cryptocurrency, data centers ...

Data centers face criticism for their high water and electricity consumption, as well as noise pollution. Northwestern Pennsylvania municipalities are working to designate specific zoning districts, ...

Twenty-six years ago — during the dim, dark past of the internet, when most households ventured online with dial-up modems – New York state enacted a sales tax exemption for “internet data centers.” ...

SALINE TWP., MI — High-profile leaders of Big Tech firms behind the massive and controversial 2.2-million-square-foot hyperscale data center under construction in Saline Township gathered at the site ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Amazon Web Services data center is shown situated near single-family homes. Some local and state officials across the country ...

WALTON COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - The Walton County Commission has instructed county staff to draft an outright ban of AI data centers, a step that all five commissioners voted to approve.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A new law in Tennessee is preventing local governments and utility providers from paying for infrastructure improvements for data centers or raising costs for customers ...

JANESVILLE — As debate continues over data center developments throughout Rock County and southern Wisconsin, local educators, union leaders and construction workers say the projects could create ...