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Mike Lynch for The Adirondack Explorer
How ‘mass timber’ is reshaping housing in downtown Tupper Lake
Northern Forest Center showcases construction with engineered wood products, in what may be the first in the Adirondacks.
LATEST NEWS FROM THE NETWORK
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Poll: Montanans deeply divided on federal immigration enforcement
This piece is part of MTFP’s 2026 poll week, where we’re exploring data on how Montana voters feel about their elected officials, environmental concerns, immigration enforcement and other issues.
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Bill to gut Seminole County rural boundary could apply outside of Central Florida
Florida Senate poised to take up the bill this Friday, as developer Chris Dorworth pushes county commissioners to support it.
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Fact brief: Were aircraft from Ellsworth involved with attacks on Iran?
South Dakota News Watch partners with Gigafact to publish fact briefs that refute or confirm a claim with supporting information and additional evidence and context.
RNN Highlights
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Justin Hardiman for Capital B
Sowing Resilience
Rural communities across the country are grappling with food insecurity. Nine stories reveal how communities are navigating — and reimagining — the systems that have left them hungry.
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Illustration by Hrisanthi Pickett
Operation Timeline
What is the Trump administration’s impact on veterans and the military? We are tracking the developments day by day. Explore our timeline.
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John Stember for Montana Free Press
The Shelter Gap
A three-part series examining barriers to buying, renting and building homes on reservation land in Montana — and highlighting the community benefits of secure housing.
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Nate Sheets promises to fire everyone linked to Sid Miller at Texas agriculture department after primary win
March 04, 2026
Sheets, in an interview with The Texas Tribune, also promised to lower costs for farmers and work with federal officials to beat a parasitic fly heading toward Texas.
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Lawsuit challenges feds’ authorization of Bull Mountains Mine expansion
March 04, 2026
Environmental groups argue that the “energy emergency” Trump has declared to facilitate fossil fuel development doesn’t exist.
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Lauren Stokes’ Firing Over Kirk Post Chilled Speech on University of Mississippi Campus, Faculty Testify
March 04, 2026
After the University of Mississippi employee lost her job for reposting criticism of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, faculty testimony in a federal court hearing suggests the decision by university leaders chilled speech across the campus of University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi—a small rural college community where the controversy quickly reverberated beyond campus.
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Wyoming nuclear power plant receives federal approval for reactor construction
March 04, 2026
TerraPower’s Natrium plant near Kemmerer is the first commercial reactor approved in nearly a decade in the U.S., and the first ‘advanced’ liquid sodium-cooled reactor in more than 40 years.
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Legislation takes aim at waste from Vermont’s only landfill
March 04, 2026
Advocates in the Northeast Kingdom are supporting a bill that would prioritize protecting their watershed from the potential contamination of forever chemicals.
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Mat-Su Assembly kills proposal to raise member salaries
March 04, 2026
The proposal was designed bring Mat-Su assembly and mayoral salaries in step with the rate of inflation.
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From a Life Sentence to Law School
March 04, 2026
Benjamin Brockie, Aaniiih of the Fork Belknap Reservation, served over 22 years of a 67 year sentence for two robberies. As a college student right out of prison, in October 2024, he learned first hand the gaps in support for people like himself reentering society and has continuously worked towards creating change in the prison system as an advocate for those still incarcerated.
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Foundational work underway for child care special district
March 04, 2026
The special tax district will expand and improve access and affordability for early childhood care and education by leveraging funds from a 0.25% sales and use tax.
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Skijoring is an exhilarating way to spend time with your dog. Here are 4 tips to get started.
March 04, 2026
It’s a winter sport where you tie yourself to your dog while on skis and they pull you down a trail, kind of like mushing for one.