The Alaska House of Representatives passed House Bill 36 unanimously on Wednesday. The bill would require foster youth hospitalized in psychiatric facilities to have a court hearing within seven ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Putting the needs of foster children first is what some lawmakers say is the heart of a bill that aims to minimize foster care children from being bounced back and forth ...

Grappling with a troubled foster care system, the House of Delegates passed a bill on Wednesday some lawmakers say will minimize children bouncing from home to home. As part of the measure ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. –A bill that would change the circumstances for when a foster child may be removed from a foster home passed the house Wednesday. Adam Burkhammer HB 2027, which aims to reduce ...

Wednesday, the Center Director Erin Foster presented to the Linn County Board of Supervisors on the exact plans for this addition. Soon, it will also be a place for people to get help withdrawing ...

The Iowa House has passed a bill that would remove the requirement for courts to appoint someone to represent the best interests of a child who might be placed in foster care. Instead, courts ...

The NH House passed a bill Thursday 197-167 that would ban health care professionals from administering hormone treatments or puberty blockers for the purpose of gender transition to anyone under 18.

Over the last few seasons, the transfer portal has become a prominent fixture of college athletics, and women’s basketball is ...

Jeremy Workman’s documentary looks back at a project that may sound like a joke but had serious underpinnings. By Alissa Wilkinson Jason Statham plays a construction worker who’s as deft at ...

Alaska foster youth are admitted to acute psychiatric facilities an average of 90 times per year, according to the state. Lawmakers want to make sure they don’t have unnecessarily long stays. The ...

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His victory restores a narrow edge for the Democrats in the Pennsylvania House. Democrat Dan Goughnour will fill the seat of the late state Rep. Matthew Gergely in the 35th Legislative District. The A ...