But now, looming GOP-led funding cuts are concerning media allies that local public broadcasters would be forced to downsize or shutter, damaging news operations and hurting locals’ ability to get timely emergency alerts like the one issued in Alaska.

Congress narrowly approved early Friday a bill to rescind $9 billion in federal spending on foreign aid and public broadcasting, cuts that will affect Alabama Public Television, the nation’s oldest first statewide public TV network. The bill, backed by President Trump, will stop $7.9 billion for foreign aid and $1.1 billion for public broadcasting.

The cuts are expected to weigh most heavily on smaller public media outlets away from big cities, and it’s likely some won’t survive.

Jr. and Omeed Malik rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange as renegades. They had just turned PublicSquare, a Yelp-like directory of con

The controversial effort to construct a new tunnel for an oil and gas pipeline under the Great Lakes requires permissions for wetland and lakebed disruption.

As it stands, Massachusetts has some of the most restrictive beach access laws among the coastal states. Residents can purchase land right down to the low-tide line, leaving many beaches, including in popular tourism destinations like Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, privately owned and off limits to the general public.

Some radio stations in the state might go under after the U.S. Senate passed a bill that cuts more than $1 billion in funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The rescissions package the Senate approved early Thursday pulls more than $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) that provides federal funding for NPR and PBS.