In a tumultuous year where new graduates are facing a downtrodden job market and high student loans, WBUR set out to find how ...

A community-led fundraiser in Elizabethtown is significantly reducing local student lunch debt - and it's happening in a festive way.

Paying for gifts, decorations and gingerbread houses can become quite expensive, so the U.S. Department of the Interior is hoping to ease some financial burden by making Christmas trees more ...

Dollar Tree has quietly raised the baseline price of a growing number of key items to $1.75 throughout the year. The discount retailer has defended the price increases, saying that 85% of its items ...

CEBU, Philippines — Before marching up the stage to receive their certificates of completion, graduating senior high school and college students in Mandaue City may soon be required to plant trees as ...

A MANDAUE City councilor is pushing for an ordinance that will require all graduating senior high school and college students, from both public and private schools, to plant trees as part of their ...

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...