State human services officials told lawmakers Thursday they plan to rework a major consolidation of early childhood governing ...

Madison Chock and Evan Bates respond to Olympic ice dance judging questions after finishing second to French duo Laurence ...

Samples of popular commercial dog foods contained "dangerous levels" of heavy metals, plastic contaminants, and acrylamide, a cancer-causing compound created when food is subjected to high heat.

The Iowa Health and Human Services Department shifted its proposal to eliminate locally controlled boards in favor of more centralized control - creating a combination of the two.

It’ll take more than appointing an inspector general. Structures need to change in state and local government.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a barrage of ballistic missiles and drones at Ukrainian cities in overnight attacks, ...

Long before agriculture, humans were transforming Europe’s wild landscapes. Advanced simulations show that hunting and fire use by Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers reshaped forests and ...

When a villager in northern Greece broke into a limestone wall and exposed a human skull, he did not just find a fossil, he ...

Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

Ancient footprints challenge the timeline of human arrival in North America, suggesting people were here much earlier than once believed.

Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...