Nominations for the 8th annual Sloopy Awards, cleveland.com's yearly Ohio politics and government awards, are now open. The ...

The release of $3.6 billion in LIHEAP funding will help millions of low-income households pay for heating and cooling their homes.

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump will halt federal payments that help administer the food stamp program to ...

Donations are an incredibly important part of the fight against food insecurity and hunger all over the world. By donating in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley, we can make a tangible difference in our ...

Some state proposals would use funds from $50 billion rural health program to start drone delivery of medications or to bring ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or ...

The five-year Rural Health Transformation Program was approved by Congress in a law – the One Big Beautiful Bill Act – that also drastically cuts Medicaid spending, on which rural providers heavily ...

The House of Representatives is set to vote on a funding package to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. The shutdown has halted Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...

The Trump Administration is once again threatening to withhold food assistance funding from several U.S states, including ...

The lawsuit stems from new guidance issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Oct. 31 on changes to SNAP.

A pallet of various canned fruit sits out at HACAP in Hiawatha, Iowa on Thursday, October 23, 2025. (Savannah Blake/The ...

Lawrence Gostin, a professor of public health law at Georgetown University, said HHS is “acting in a way that utterly lacks ...