National Community News Wire
Reporting from across the U.S. from the next generation of great journalists
If you run a news-academic partnership in your community and have a student-reported story you’d like us to highlight, please submit it here. Your submissions will be posted on the National Community News Wire as links that direct readers back to the original source. The original source can be a local news outlet that you partner with, a campus newspaper that covers the broader community, or your college newsroom page.
The 1.5 generation: Trauma and resilience in immigrant children amid mass deportation
Leah Bowers, Cronkite News
Special Feature
ICE in US Cities
Student coverage on ICE operations and community responses across US cities.
Policy & Politics
What to Know Before Monday’s Supreme Court Hearing on Whether Drug Users Can Own Guns
Morgan Knight and Dru Strand, Howard University News Service
Culture & Sports
Blossom Kite Festival celebrates bloom of cherry blossoms (includes video story)
Carolina Alvarez, Caplin News
Crystal Skull Studio creates an inclusive environment for self-expression through hair
AnnaBelle Favre, Eastern Echo
‘Worthy of preservation’
Historic properties in Alamance County invite conversation, commemoration
Sarah T. Moore, Elon News Network
Environment
Cuts to federal funding and FEMA bring uncertainty to Atlantic City’s flood projects
Michael Bautista, South Jersey Climate News
Granville council hears resounding support for a switch to new energy provider during public hearing
Margo Ellis, The Reporting Project
Business & Tech
Free speech at risk? DHS asks tech firms to share details of anti-ICE accounts
Ananya Swaroop, Boston University News Service
Utilities ramp up tree trimming to address long-standing reliability problems
Sonja Krohn, Capital News Service
Even as Silicon Valley Booms, Venture Capitalists See Unique Opportunities in Texas
Sheldon Munroe, Reporting Texas
Cedar Falls brothers to open neighborhood bar on College Hill
Anelia Dimitrova, Cedar Falls News Hub
Education & Housing
Bill targets zoning laws that block homes for adults with disabilities
Rebecka Pieder, Medill Illinois News Bureau, Capitol News Illinois
New bill designed to stop chronic absenteeism in schools passes the House
Roxy Vanderhoff, Community News Service
Chromebooks, Clarke Central Work Get Funding Approval At School Board Meeting
David McFarland, Grady Newsource
Health & Science
The burden of advocacy falls on Indiana firefighters facing PFAS-related cancers
Olivia O’Neal, TheStatehouseFile.com
Thinking about raising chickens to beat egg prices? Here’s what El Pasoans should know
Joseph Montero, Borderzine
Public Safety & Justice
Desperation grows as TSA agents are still not getting paid: ‘ICE is not trained to do the work of TSA agents’
Audrey Lippert and Dermont Stevenson, Cronkite News
How Illinois’ Road Fund will help fund transit, especially in the Chicago region
Jacques Abou-Rizk and Amy Wong, Capitol News Illinois
Charlotte Volunteer Fire & Rescue Services makes case for budget increase
Maggie Dullea, Community News Service
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