This kind of hyper-local assistance covers a wide range of actions: collecting food and funds for those in need, organizing free item exchanges, or walking a child to and from school because of ...

When formal systems become unreliable or morally compromised, people do not wait for consensus about how to change them, writes James Lomastro. They adapt by building informal networks of mutual aid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AUSTIN (KXAN) — As a major winter storm swept across much of the nation this past weekend, mutual aid groups in Austin stepped up ...

Dressed in bright blue tactical gear, Skyline, Albuquerque's local superhero, sat in the council chamber's front row Wednesday. Skyline recently went viral on social media for assisting homeless ...

As immigration enforcement crackdowns expand across the US, communities can mobilize to lessen the public health impacts.

Trans people still make up the vast minority of mass shooters. But there is a vast online ecosystem encouraging transgender ...

Weather and snow conditions will dictate when the bodies of skiers killed in the avalanche near Lake Tahoe can be retrieved ...

OTTAWA — The MP overseeing foreign aid says Ottawa wants to focus its international assistance efforts on countries that can generate economic spinoffs for Canadians.

With more than 70 people signed up for public comment on the zoning change and discussion to follow, it's likely to be a long night. A vote on the measure isn't expected until late in the evening.

Detroit City Council has several questions for police and city officials on interactions with federal immigration officials ...

For the past two decades, drawing on research I conducted for ODI Global—and earlier for the Gerhart Centre at the American ...

The MP overseeing foreign aid says Ottawa wants to focus its international assistance efforts on countries that can generate economic spinoffs for Canadians. “The first priority is focusing our ...