The Noughts & Crosses author is among the starry ambassadors for the campaign – one of the initiatives aimed at addressing the reading crisis Last night, the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, announced a ...

A House proposal that would ask voters to phase out non-school homestead property taxes moved forward Thursday, as lawmakers and Gov. Ron DeSantis try to reach an agreement on a November ballot ...

A Chilliwack River Valley homeowner whose property was ordered evacuated for a second time in four years because of a landslide is making another attempt to get government financial assistance.

These people have lived in fear long enough. They shouldn’t have to live in fear a day longer,” said Clay County Assistant ...

Days after Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic nomination in New York City’s mayoral primary election, he joined NBC’s “Meet the Press” to answer questions about his platform. He told the show’s host, ...

It turns out that despite everything you’ve heard, getting a colonoscopy is wonderful. By Sam Anderson For many of us, a colonoscopy is a distant inevitable horror, like the heat death of the universe ...

A new developer is taking over the former Lone Star Brewery, potentially ushering in a long-awaited makeover of the star-crossed site along the San Antonio River south of downtown. New Braunfels-based ...

After years of using a Kindle Paperwhite and the Kindle app on iOS and Android, I’ve found that the device’s distraction-free nature is actually its greatest strength for tasks that have nothing to do ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

I swapped scrolling for reading every night for a week—and slept like a log I used to be the kid who read books under the covers with a flashlight, long past bedtime. A proud bookworm. A weekly ...

In an era of 15-second videos and AI summaries of text, the ability to sit with a single text for an hour is becoming extinct. When we read online, our brains are in “hunting” mode—looking for ...