Gov. Kristi Noem presents her annual budget address to lawmakers in the South Dakota State Capitol on Dec. 3, 2024. Behind her, from left, are House Speaker nominee Jon Hansen and Lt. Gov. Larry ...

Proposed cuts to public libraries are starting to draw protests in the Triangle. Why it matters: Libraries are a small slice ...

The director of EveryLibrary, which fights for library budgets and against book bans, discusses censorship and those drag-queen story hours.

He’s making a return on his promise. Mayor Zohran Mamdani is turning the page on his campaign promise to boost funding for libraries — instead pushing to slash their budgets by nearly $30 million — ...

The Anne Arundel County Public Library, with 16 branches across the county, received a $2.4 million budget increase in the county’s fiscal year 2026 budget that passed in June. That brings the library ...