The Mercury's top 10 most-read stories this year reflect our readers' interests in a range of issues that affect them and ...

A recent immigration surge brought newcomers to every state this year, helping to offset a continued drop in U.S. births ...

The U.S. Senate approved a broadly bipartisan bill early Saturday that would increase Social Security benefits for millions ...

If advocates are successful, Washington would join a dozen Democratic-leaning states and several cities that have added new ...

Valerie Fridland is a professor of linguistics at the University of Nevada in Reno and author of the book, "Like Literally, ...

From St. Nick to Santa to Kris Kringle, it’s a marvel that Rudolph isn’t completely confused about whom exactly he is working ...

The unconstrained buildout of data centers has handed Virginia leaders a problem that is, in the parlance of JLARC, “very ...

The U.S. Department of Education on Dec. 20 signaled it would withdraw a proposed rule that would have set a regulatory ...

Virginia’s surging energy demands, driven by data center growth, are putting pressure on the state’s natural gas ...

Aunt Louise holds a special place of honor on my Christmas card list this year.She’s the last living aunt or uncle, for that ...