A USDA spokesman wrote in an email that the department's decision "sunsetting" the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement and the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement ...

The USDA on April 1 gave employees seven days to decide whether to take financial incentives to quit, part of the effort by President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk to shrink the ...

A pair of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs — one that funds the purchase of local farm-fresh foods for school cafeterias and another that funds much of the product available in ...

The USDA on April 1 gave employees seven days to decide whether to take financial incentives to quit, part of the effort by President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk to shrink the ...

The Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA), a USDA initiative that enabled food banks and pantries to buy produce directly from small farmers, was unexpectedly halted ...

Several federal agencies said they would investigate Maine as a result, but on April 2, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins notified the state it would freeze some funding that goes to schools.

Once upon a crime, four sticky-fingered sisters, all in their seventies, pulled a surreal $10 million fraud by filing almost 200 false claims of prejudice against USDA. The geriatric quartet ...

The USDA's order for the U.S. Forest Service to increase lumber production by 25% is being panned as both unwise and infeasible in Southern California's sprawling national forests due to a lack of ...

April 7, 2025 – Last week, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced she was pausing some USDA funding that flows to the Maine Department of Education based on violations of Title IX, the ...

Phyllis J. Rhodes, 78, of Altoona, passed away peacefully Saturday afternoon at home, surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Altoona, the daughter of the late Robert E. and Virginia E.