Aquifer levels in parts of western Kansas that rely on groundwater for everything from drinking to irrigation fell more than a foot last year, Kansas Geological Survey scientists said Tuesday. The ...

Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP/Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images/Martin Schutt/AP Head Start has been something of a sacred cow in Washington since its creation in 1965. The $12.3 billion federal ...

This time, water gushed forth. “Everyone got excited because this was the discovery of an aquifer that no one knew existed,” says Elizabeth Quiroga Jordan, a petroleum engineer at Ruden AS ...