After a week of fierce competition, Backpack emerged victorious as Fat Bear Week champion, the heftiest bear of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. The nonprofit running the longstanding ...

Thomas Edward Michel, 73, of Sterling passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family on September 22, 2026. He was born on July 26, 1953 in Sterling, Tom was the beloved son of Edwin and Evelyn ...

Logan County Election Department recently celebrated Kathy Brownell’s 30 years of service as an election judge for Logan County. Kathy has been an election judge since 1996 and has served in many ...

Christa Pike’s failed execution followed other death penalty miscues in Tennessee, which performs just a fraction of the nation’s executions but is now halting them for a second time since 2022, ...

An outside firm is investigating workplace conditions within the Colorado Department of Human Services amid high turnover in its leadership team, a cascade of formal complaints and millions of dollars ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that its inspectors detected cyclospora at the Mexican farm blamed for the largest foodborne illness outbreak of the parasite in U.S.

Sterling — Thrivent, a Fortune 500 financial services company that helps people build, grow and protect their financial well-being, announced that AM Best has affirmed its A++ (Superior) financial ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump had plans to dine late Sunday with the CEO of Anthropic, one of the leading voices on artificial intelligence but also someone who’s sparred with the Trump ...

NORTH BERGEN, N.J. (AP) — Powerful cutters have whirred to life on a giant drill that will begin boring a new train tunnel under the Hudson River connecting Manhattan to New Jersey. Officials gathered ...

Our beloved Dixie 84, of Sterling passed away on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, peacefully with family by her side. A celebration of Dixie’s life will be held at 1 pm on Saturday, October 17, at the ...

The Sterling City Council heard a presentation at their Tuesday, Sept. 22 meeting about Recyclops, a recycling company that will soon be launching a curbside program in Sterling. City Manager John ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Most of the U.S. stock market fell Wednesday as Wall Street contended with the downside of a U.S. economy that keeps powering through its many challenges. The S&P 500 slipped 0.3% to ...