According to the U.S. Fire Administration, 70% of rural community fire departments in the nation are staffed by volunteers. In checking other sources, we found that about 53% of rural medical emergency services are staffed by volunteers. During the months of February and March, Independent ...

President Joe Biden announced Thursday he is going to start releasing a million barrels of oil per day from the nation’s strategic petroleum preserve for the next six months to control spiking energy costs. The addition to the nation’s fuel supply should impact the price at the pump, which ...

The Food and Drug Administration and the Center for Disease Control are recommending that people aged 50 and older could get a second booster immunization against COVID-19, if it has been at least four months since they got their third immunization. People 65 and older and younger people ...

On two days this month, the state of Minnesota Department of Health recorded no deaths from COVID-19. On March 12 and March 16, zero deaths from COVID were reported. That is good, heartening news on the COVID front, but it carries a caution. Since a lot of reports to the DOH are delayed as ...

The theft of catalytic converters from cars has been growing over the past few years. The converters, part of the emissions control system, are coated with a variety of rare and precious metals to convert unburned hydrocarbons in exhaust into carbon dioxide and water. Thieves found that with ...

Russian troops that have besieged the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol have waged a kind of war that should be considered crimes against humanity. They bombed a maternity hospital. They have shelled schools and hospitals where civilians have gathered to seek shelter, including a theater where ...