More than 1 billion Chinese citizens will participate in a once-in-a-decade census that will inform policymakers on demographic shifts in the world's most-populous but fast-ageing nation, and help ...

Getting an accurate count of America’s population has proven difficult in the 2020 Census as the coronavirus pandemic has hampered voluntary responses and forced officials to scale back door-knocking ...

Gov. Kelly Armstrong has proclaimed Oct. 10, 2025, as First Nations Day and November 2025 as Native American Heritage Month ...

Josh and Aubree Jones set the internet on fire this week when they unveiled the name of their seventh child: Disney. In an ...

At least some employees were killed, officials said, but the exact death toll and the cause of the explosion at Accurate ...

For the first time in American history, one in five people living in the U.S. identify as Latino, according to a new study by the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and California ...

Billionaire Tom Steyer is now the biggest donor supporting Proposition 50, the November ballot measure that would redraw ...

Gov. Newsom Friday signed a bill that will make it easier to build apartment buildings. Cities like Los Angeles fear a loss ...

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Funds spent on the special election could have supported voter-approved Prop. 36 drug treatment programs, the DA’s coalition ...

California voters on Nov. 4 will decide if the state should toss its current congressional district map drawn by the state's ...

The latest proposed draft of the Wilson County Master Land Use Plan was discussed by county officials at the final public meeting on Thursday, Sept. 25 held on Cumberland University’s campus. Called ...