North Dakota has 15 nationally certified American Sign Language interpreters for the whole state, with none living west of U.S. Highway 83, according to a national registry. Lindsey Solberg Herbel, ...

A Kenyan entrepreneur who designed an app that translates speech into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars has won a major award for African innovation. “Think of it as Google Translate for sign ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A federal agency has rejected Michigan’s appeal for more aid following March’s historic ice storm. The Federal Emergency Management Agency denied the state’s appeal for ...

Gov. Tony Evers' request for additional federal funding for Wisconsin to address damage from this summer's severe flooding was denied by the federal government, the governor announced Oct. 24. The ...

Louisiana’s first alternative program to certify teachers of English learners will seek final approval Wednesday from the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in hopes of addressing a shortage ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency decided local governments and nonprofit organizations in Door County and five other counties in Wisconsin won't receive individual financial assistance to clean ...

When Louisiana finally won a second-majority Black district in 2024, I felt a weight lift from my shoulders. For decades, Black voters like me knew that having only one voting district where we could ...

Windham Regional Planning Commissioner Chris Campany at the site of a floodplain restored with FEMA funding in West Brattleboro, Vermont. Campany said he sees his role as helping people understand ...

New York on Thursday rejected a request from Louisiana to extradite a doctor who was charged with prescribing abortion pills to a pregnant minor in the Deep South state, setting up a potential test of ...