Every new year, public media reporters across the country bring us some of the new state laws taking effect where they are. Here are six in 2026.

Dozens of people are presumed dead and about 100 injured, most of them seriously, following a fire at a Swiss Alps bar during a New Year's celebration, police said Thursday.

The legendary 95-year-old investor spent decades building his company into one of the world's largest and most powerful. Now Greg Abel is taking it over.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani took the oath of office in New York City after midnight Thursday. The city's first Muslim mayor, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has promised to focus on affordability and fairness.

The 43-day-long federal government shutdown ended in November, but the issue at the center of it is still unresolved going into 2026.

Ohio Department of Health reminds parents that it is not too late to vaccinate their children for the flu.

Tariffs, inflation, and other federal policies have battered U.S. farmers' bottom lines. Now many farmers say the expiration of federal health care subsidies will make their coverage unaffordable.

In 2000, then-Akron Beacon Journal columnist David Giffels made predictions for what the city would be like in 2025. What did he get right?