LA CROSSE, Wis. – Applications are now being accepted for Wisconsin businesses with 50 or fewer employees to obtain grant money to help create a workplace wellness program. The state has set aside $3 million a year to reimburse small businesses for their wellness programs. Catherine Kolkm ...Read More

PIERRE, S.D. - Native American children with special needs in South Dakota are largely faring as well as their non-native counterparts, according to a new report. But the data in the latest South Dakota Kids Count issue brief show there's room for improvement. Lisa Sanderson, associate director ...Read More

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Many of us have fallen victim to a high-pressure sales pitch and ended up buying something we really didn't need or want. A law on the books in Arkansas gives consumers three days to cancel a purchase from a door-to-door sale, or something bought at an outdoor festival or ...Read More

BALTIMORE – More than 50,000 moms across the country spent Mother's Day without their child because he or she is locked up in jail or prison. A new report by the Institute for Policy Studies says many mothers have taken the pain of separation and turned it into activism. Former Baltimore r ...Read More

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri voters may be asked to change the state constitution to say life begins at conception. The House voted in favor of House Resolution 98 last week and now, it's the Senate's turn to debate it. The bill recognizes an unborn child as a person with a "right to life whic ...Read More

DES MOINES, Iowa – Iowa ranks third overall in the nation for helping people with disabilities get jobs and job training. But for one age group, there's more to be done in that regard. The latest national report from the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire says Iowa ...Read More

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Family caregivers in Minnesota are poised to get some extra help now that the State Legislature passed a bill known as the CARE Act. The bill is heading to Gov. Dayton's desk. If he signs it, the new law will require hospitals to provide more training to in-home caregivers once a ...Read More

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Bucking the national trend of improving air quality, seven Wyoming counties with high levels of oil and gas activity have seen their grades slip in this year's "State of the Air" report card from the American Lung Association. Ronni Flannery, healthy air director of the Amer ...Read More