The Chicago Board of Education approved a small increase to its property tax levy on Monday that will allow the district to collect about $40 million more than originally planned. For taxpayers, that ...

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This video shows a day full of challenges on the road — heavy rain, traffic delays, a rerouted load, and delivery hold-ups. It highlights how drivers adapt to constant changes and still find solutions ...

New Orleans’ municipal government may not be able to make payroll for the rest of the year, as the city’s cash flow, already precarious in the face of a $160 million deficit, is apparently worse than ...

Failures at the Oregon State Hospital have spread to mental health treatment across the state. The impact includes the unraveling of the agreement for the state grant that pays for mental health ...

A problem with the main engine on Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft will keep it from delivering 11,000 pounds of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station as scheduled on ...

Smaller companies are as diverse in their structure and ownership as they are in their focus on retail, repair, tech, real estate, and other business sectors—whether as brick-and-mortar or digital ...

When it rains in Newton, Massachusetts, water rushes off roads, down asphalt gullies, and into Cheesecake Brook – a small stream that was converted many years ago into a narrow channel lined with ...

In both transmission and distribution electrical power systems, load flow analysis is crucial for various reasons. At one level, it informs us about the amount of real and reactive power flowing ...