Heather Hollingsworth

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  • Parent with studentSuccess

    When will offices embrace the 4-day week? Hundreds of schools already have

    By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated Press
  • washes one of the Budweiser Clydesdales at Houston Polo Club before this weeks Clydesdale appearances Monday, March 31, 2014, in Houston.<br /> (James Nielsen/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)Retail

    Budweiser will no longer shorten the tails of its iconic Clydesdales after PETA complained that it amounted to ‘cruelty’

    By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated Press
  • FILE &#8211; Richard Evans, a teacher at Hyde Park Elementary School, helps a student sound out a word during a reading circle in class on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022, in Niagara Falls, N.Y. Stuck with distance learning as they began grade school, the kids who are now finishing elementary school were the ones most disrupted by COVID, with alarming delays in their reading ability. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File)Success

    Big kids in elementary school need profound help after pandemic setbacks: ‘We’re past the point where we’re likely to see a quick rebound’

    By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated Press
  • Chris GroningerEnvironment

    Iowa weatherman quits after 18 years on TV because audience harassed him off the air for reporting on climate change

    By Hannah Fingerhut, Heather Hollingsworth, and others
  • The mother of a student whose confidential sexual assault complaint was released online stands outside the Minneapolis Public Schools offices, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Minneapolis. Ransomware gangs have been stealing confidential documents from schools and dumping them online. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)Tech

    Ransomware criminals who hit schools are publishing kids’ confidential documents online

    By Frank Bajak, Heather Hollingsworth, and others
  • Conner DowellSuccess

    ‘I have kids that legitimately cannot read’: Inside a Kansas school that was devastated by COVID lockdown

    By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated Press
  • Kristi NoemEnvironment

    ‘Catastrophe’ on Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota as tribal leaders claim 6 deaths from snowstorm ‘could have been prevented’

    By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated Press
  • Max McCoy, the lone journalism professor at Emporia State University, poses for a photo in front of the school&#8217;s administration building Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, in Emporia, Kan. McCoy was was one of 33 mostly tenured professors fired at the school using an emergency pandemic measure allowing universities to bypass regular policies covering terminations to balance budgets. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)Politics

    Professors’ tenure targeted by conservatives over race, gender, and sexuality teachings: ‘This is a purge’

    By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated Press
  • Child careSuccess

    ‘A constant battle’: The number of parents missing work because of child care is higher than before the pandemic—and it’s not improving

    By Heather Hollingsworth, Claire Savage, and others
  • Travelers wait in line to check-in for their flights at Terminal 1 ahead of the Christmas Holiday at MSP Airport in Bloomington, Minn., on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. (Kerem Yücel /Minnesota Public Radio via AP)Environment

    Massive winter storm leads to 3,400-plus flight cancellations, nearly half a million homes and businesses with no electricity

    By Heather Hollingsworth, Jill Bleed, and others
  • A dog walker and three dogs in the snow.Lifestyle

    The bomb cyclone is coming and temperatures in some places have already fallen 50 degrees in just a few hours

    By Heather Hollingsworth, Jill Bleed, and others
  • US economist Philip Dybvig poses after having been awarded the The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2022 during the Nobel Prize award ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden on December 10, 2022. &#8211; &#8211; Sweden OUTFinance

    Nobel laureate economist faces sex harassment investigation following accusations by former students

    By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated Press
  • A truck of oil spill responders in Kansas.Environment

    The biggest oil spill in the history of the Keystone pipeline is dumping more than a half million gallons of crude into a creek in Kansas

    By John Hanna, Heather Hollingsworth, and others
  • A remediation company deploys a boom on the surface of an oil spill after a Keystone pipeline ruptured at Mill Creek in Washington County, Kansas, on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Vacuum trucks, booms and an emergency dam were constructed on the creek to intercept the spill. (Kyle Bauer/KCLY/KFRM Radio via AP)Environment

    Keystone oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. shut after Kansas spill

    By John Hanna, Heather Hollingsworth, and others
  • A "shop cannabis" sign is displayed on the streetLifestyle

    Missouri marijuana law has changed—but there’s some confusion

    By Jim Salter, Heather Hollingsworth, and others