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How many children is too many for a child care provider to manage? A bill to increase ratios of children to staff in licensed child care programs came before the Senate Public Health, Welfare, and Safety Committee last week. Proponents and opponents of Senate Bill 142 agreed that solutions are needed to address Montanas shortage of affordable child care, but opponents said increasing the number of children in programs without adding more staff could endanger children.  The bill would increas...

For at least a decade, some state legislators have been trying to eliminate the requirement for local governments to post legal notices in local newspapers, opting instead to put such

CONCORD — Hikers, snowshoers, cross country and back country skiers, climbers, and all other outdoor enthusiasts are encouraged to purchase their voluntary annual Hike Safe card for 2021. Card sales

This year’s General Assembly has dealt with some mighty big issues — abolishing the death penalty, legalizing marijuana, potentially amending the state constitution to require equal educational opportunities for all

Athens Food4Lives will spread love and kindness this Valentine’s Day at its weekend-long event, “Love Sick Yard Sale." Food4Lives is an organization that works to bring free meals, basic necessities and free education to unhoused communities. To fulfill this mission, the Athens branch of Food4Lives will host its “Love Sick Yard Sale” as a fundraiser for local unhoused communities on Feb. 12-14 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 195 Barrow Street. The idea for this yard sale was creat...

Lynchburg taxpayers will not be on the hook for the region’s new mass vaccination center after Liberty University agreed to rent a vacant building to the city at no cost, according to a lease agreement obtained by The News & Advance. City officials are putting the final touches on the nearly 20,000-square-foot center at Candlers Station, which is expected to serve up to 6,000 people a day once vaccination supply ramps up. “We hope this convenient location in Candler’s Station Sho...

The total investment and M&A in the gaming industry reached $40.57 billion in 2020 across 642 deals. According to the research data analyzed and published by Safe Betting Sites , the investment activity was concentrated between April 2020 ...

In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Hardeep Singh Puri said the equalisation levy collection stood at Rs 338.6 crore in 2016-17, Rs 589.4 crore in 2017-18 and Rs 938.9 crore in 2018-19.

Westbound I-64 in Boyd County is blocked at mile marker 185 in this morning after a multiple-vehicle crash. All traffic is being detoured at Exit 191 (Catlettsburg) to U.S. 23

Northeast Tennessee reported a net increase of 219 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infections on Thursday, its most in nearly two weeks, causing its seven-day new case rate to increase for the second-consecutive day. As of Thursday, the region was averaging 135.5 new cases per day over the last week, up from a low of 116.1 on Tuesday but still below last week’s high of 160. Sullivan County reported the most new cases with 89, while Carter County (+51) was the only other to report more than 50...