TodayThis weekOct 12 to 18, 2026
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This week has 151 verified stories from all 50 states and Washington, D.C., and 7 countries. Community led with 92 stories, then Animals with 24 and Heroes with 23.
These lead because this week includes three stories from Today's Top 5. The newest stories still in the week complete the set of five. The story of the day, a Top 5 rank, and the world pick are the homepage marks already stored on a story. When those marks name fewer than five stories in the week, the most-cheered stories fill in, and then the newest.
Community258 people with autism, sensory sensitivities, and other disabilities went from check-in through boarding on an A330 that taxied at Honolulu. It was the first widebody used for a practice flight.
Verified · Hawaii News Now
CommunityMelody Rupple's TrekAbility lends all-terrain gear for free. Joe Stone's Unified Dirt is adding joystick trail chairs for Grand Teton and checking trails so they can be made accessible.
Verified · Cowboy State Daily
CommunityClearing Chloe Historic Cemetery uncovered family plots, the founder's long-lost great-grandmother, and cousins who had not known they were related.
Verified · KPLC
CommunityThe Great Waco Duck Race supports Dolly Parton's Imagination Library of Waco, which mails a free book each month to more than 2,000 McLennan County children.
Verified · KWTX
HeroesEvan Hunter, his mother, and 27 volunteers spent Saturday writing thank-you notes to veterans. They have held the card-writing day every year since 2020.
Verified · FOX Bangor23 stories in this section this week.
HeroesEvan Hunter, his mother, and 27 volunteers spent Saturday writing thank-you notes to veterans. They have held the card-writing day every year since 2020.
Verified · FOX Bangor
HeroesWill Richards walked from Cape Soya to Cape Sata. His grandfather surprised him on the route, and a Kickin' Asthma half marathon is set for Oct. 24.
Verified · KSL.com
HeroesAshleigh and Jose Valcarcel's Northern Alliance Reentry runs six sober transitional houses. Former residents have gone on to their own apartments and jobs.
Verified · Anchorage Daily News
HeroesChristian Brothers Automotive staff came in on a day off for four hours of free oil changes and safety inspections. Fifteen to 20 single and widowed mothers brought their cars.
Verified · KMBC
HeroesAt Urban Air in Bellingham, a game of catch with 7-year-old Tristan Caron turned into 40 minutes of hide-and-seek and slides. The park plans a celebration day.
Verified · CBS Boston (WBZ-TV)
HeroesThe Station 21 crew had just finished pet-care training when a veterinary clinic called for help with an emergency C-section. They cleared airways and moved the newborns into incubators.
Verified · WSB-TV
HeroesTwo women and 67 men, with service years from 1947 to 2011, returned Wednesday night to a cheering crowd at Fresno Yosemite International Airport.
Verified · FOX26
HeroesDeputy Matthew Arrington kept giving back blows until a piece of sandwich came free and a Siegel High student could breathe. He received a Letter of Commendation.
Verified · WSMV 4
HeroesRebuilding Together Northern Nevada and Lowe's gave Army and Air Force veteran Floyd Payton a working oven, a new porch, lighting, and smoke detectors.
Verified · KOLO 8
HeroesRaymond Chen knew he was too small to lift Jade Chen out of the water. He pushed her to the poolside after a leg cramp made her start to sink.
Verified · NBC Los Angeles
HeroesVeterinarian Lisa Coder started Feed Sioux Falls last November after worrying about families going hungry. The Heritage Park giveaway began with coffee and grew to sandwiches, toiletries, and more.
Verified · Dakota News Now
HeroesBeHeard, which runs mobile showers and laundry, hired John Vose and then gathered more than 40 people in a few weeks to buy him a trailer of his own.
Verified · KTUL (NewsChannel 8)
HeroesFreedom Alliance and U.S. Bank gave Marine veteran Dustin Gabehart, who coaches football at La Junta High, a new car that was already paid off. His children had not been told.
Verified · KRDO
HeroesJon Norstog spent a night by a fire in a space blanket after he missed his ride on Mex Mountain. An Idaho County search-and-rescue dog team found him the next morning, not injured.
Verified · Dailyfly News (Lewiston)
HeroesVeterans flew from Des Moines to Washington, visited memorials, and came home to a surprise welcome. Gov. Kim Reynolds met two uncles and a cousin, including one celebrating his 77th birthday.
Verified · KCCI
HeroesDream Flights gave three residents of Beò of Chattanooga free rides in a restored biplane. Air Force veteran Joe DePrimo, 79, flew after a stroke that left him paralyzed on one side.
Verified · NewsChannel 9 (WTVC)
HeroesProspect Park Borough named good Samaritans outstanding citizens after they lifted a Volkswagen Beetle off a woman pinned in a crash with an e-bike. She was taken to a hospital with a chest injury.
Verified · CBS Philadelphia
HeroesAfter a fire on the research vessel Rem Andes about 100 nautical miles south of Grand Isle, a Coast Guard plane caught the mayday and nearby supply boats carried every crew member from the life rafts to Port Fourchon.
Verified · KATC / Acadiana News First
HeroesOfficer Carston Addison, on the force less than a year, dropped his gear and swam out to bring a 12-year-old boy to shore. Chief Mario Knapp gave him a special life-saving award.
Verified · CBS News Miami
HeroesTerry Berggren holds babies in Overland Park Regional Hospital's Warm Arms program when families cannot be there. The hospital gave him its Humanitarian Award.
Verified · KAKE
HeroesSt. Xavier senior Wyatt Anderson fractured his spine last November. On Sunday he ran the Chicago Marathon with his brother in 3:56:28, and the two raised more than $22,000 for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.
Verified · WLKY
HeroesBodycam shows officers running up to an Astoria apartment and giving CPR to a baby boy who had stopped breathing until he breathed again. He was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell in stable condition.
Verified · ABC7 New York
HeroesAfter scammers took a DoorDash driver's paycheck the day before his daughter turned 2, Officers Alessandro Figuccio and Tanner Schnieder bought clothes, toys, and a pink bike and brought them back.
Verified · AZFamily (KTVK/KPHO)24 stories in this section this week.
AnimalsOklahoma State's College of Veterinary Medicine let families operate on stuffed bears. One student now in the program first did it at age 8.
Verified · KOCO 5
AnimalsMore than 1,000 runners and walkers turned out, the largest gathering since before the pandemic, to support conservation of critically endangered African penguins.
Verified · NBC Connecticut
AnimalsAt Ruby Hill Park the shelter offered free vaccines, microchips, food, and supplies. It expected more than 300 pets, and the day helped hundreds stay with their families.
Verified · CBS Colorado
AnimalsCrews checked the air, rigged a rescue, and had the dog out within 30 minutes on Crossview Drive. It went home with its owner.
Verified · WXII 12
AnimalsCaptive-bred owls released since 2009 are nesting in the Wienerwald, and a related project in Bavaria has now recorded wild breeding too. A 2021 count put Austria at about 45 pairs.
Verified · BirdGuides
AnimalsThe Phoenix-based Fetch Foundation sends fire departments free kits with pet oxygen masks, burn supplies, and critter bags. Phoenix crews used them after a house fire this week.
Verified · KJZZ
AnimalsMore than 20 volunteers followed an AirTag signal to a poodle-husky mix standing in the snow near Pepper Peak. She came home with a broken toe and a lost tooth.
Verified · UPI (AccuWeather)
AnimalsPALS and Cat Life Maine ran a free clinic in Winthrop for National Feral Cat Day. Donors covered every surgery.
Verified · WABI 5
AnimalsA concrete contractor brought a mini excavator, and firefighters and county road crews dug until a dog trapped since 5 a.m. jumped into her owners' arms.
Verified · WCTV
AnimalsOfficer Marcus O'Connor took the babies to Twin Harbors Wildlife Center. After several months of care, he helped release all six on Oct. 3.
Verified · The Daily World
AnimalsMontana Fish, Wildlife and Parks game wardens and a bear specialist caught the cub, cut off the plastic jar, and let it go unhurt.
Verified · NonStop Local / MontanaRightNow
AnimalsShelter staff built a wheelchair from Hot Wheels and rulers for a stray kitten with a back injury. Tattoo artist Hope Hollandsworth adopted him.
Verified · The Washington Post
AnimalsThe turtle stranded on Jeju in 2019, tangled in abandoned fishing gear. After seven surgeries it was set for release from a beach in Seogwipo, without a tracking tag.
Verified · The Korea Times
AnimalsIn the 10 months since the Greenland crossing opened near Castle Rock, drivers hit two animals on a stretch that used to see about one collision a day.
Verified · The Colorado Sun
AnimalsForty-one dogs and one cat were removed from unsanitary conditions. Each will be spayed or neutered before adoption, and care may cost more than $15,000.
Verified · FOX 7
AnimalsThe Sioux Falls Humane Society's Pet Food Bank, with Greater Good Charities and the Animal Resource Center, loaded pallets for Brookings, Yankton, Mitchell, and Iowa so families can keep their pets.
Verified · Dakota News Now
AnimalsA 10-year-old Jack Russell who slipped out of a Canyon Village cabin on Sept. 10 was waiting in a doghouse inside a humane trap. She had lost about 10 pounds and was reunited with her family.
Verified · Cowboy State Daily
AnimalsMore than 20 dogs turned up at Junto Winery for the third annual event. Blue River Pet Rescue has recorded nearly 200 adoptions so far in 2026.
Verified · Seward Independent
AnimalsHundo, who came to the zoo as an orphaned calf at about 150 pounds, left for Florida weighing 546 pounds. Manatee Springs then welcomed Tuglet, Smidge, and Zimomo.
Verified · FOX19 (WXIX)
AnimalsOn his 15th birthday, Evergreen Park sophomore Daniel Kirincic found a lost cockatiel on the track bleachers. It matched a bird he had painted the year before, and the owner let him keep it.
Verified · Patch (Evergreen Park)
AnimalsJean Quade turned a weedy back lot on Avenel Avenue into pollinator habitat large enough to be certified as a Monarch Waystation. Neighbors who had not met before now garden there together.
Verified · WDBJ7
AnimalsLaborer Bobby Silva, 26, of Waterford, scooped up a 5-week-old kitten that had fallen about 120 feet into the Thames. She had no broken bones, and he adopted her and named her Molly.
Verified · NBC Connecticut
AnimalsKimber, 11, and her owner Eric Schuman, a 78-year-old retired physician associate, have spent about five years as a pet-therapy team comforting patients, often starting shifts in the ER.
Verified · Salem Reporter
AnimalsAt the Motín del Oro camp, in the community of El Coire, the season's first olive ridley hatchlings left the sand after a hard start of heat, dry sand, and storms.
Verified · MiMorelia6 stories in this section this week.
ScienceJohn Smolinsky of Earthbound Forestry uses his one-ton horse on small, steep, and sensitive woodlots. A horse compacts the soil far less than a heavy skidder.
Verified · Vermont Public
ScienceNature Conservancy staff and Southeastern Oklahoma State volunteers worked at Pontotoc Ridge Preserve while hundreds of millions of birds pass over the state.
Verified · KOSU / StateImpact Oklahoma
ScienceIn lab tanks at Hopkins Marine Station, bleached coral fragments that briefly touched healthy clones took in algae within three days and fully recovered in seven weeks. Fragments without that contact died.
Verified · Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
ScienceThe DNR says partners, from private landowners to people planting on their own, helped reach the milestone. New trees also went in at Havenwoods, the state's only urban state forest, in Milwaukee.
Verified · WPR (Wisconsin Public Radio)
ScienceFive years after the Black Summer fires, camera traps found a similar set of native mammal species in burnt and unburnt bush. Feral cats were photographed more often than before.
Verified · NSW Local Land Services
ScienceAfter four Klamath River dams were removed in 2024, sonar counts recorded 7,742 Chinook passing the former dam sites that fall and more than 13,000 in 2025. The fish spread through 214 miles blocked for about a century.
Verified · Mongabay92 stories in this section this week.
Community258 people with autism, sensory sensitivities, and other disabilities went from check-in through boarding on an A330 that taxied at Honolulu. It was the first widebody used for a practice flight.
Verified · Hawaii News NowCommunityMelody Rupple's TrekAbility lends all-terrain gear for free. Joe Stone's Unified Dirt is adding joystick trail chairs for Grand Teton and checking trails so they can be made accessible.
Verified · Cowboy State DailyCommunityClearing Chloe Historic Cemetery uncovered family plots, the founder's long-lost great-grandmother, and cousins who had not known they were related.
Verified · KPLCCommunityThe Great Waco Duck Race supports Dolly Parton's Imagination Library of Waco, which mails a free book each month to more than 2,000 McLennan County children.
Verified · KWTX
CommunityDickson City Great Clips and the Career Technology Center of Lackawanna County collected hair donations and gave every haircut dollar to Wigs for Kids.
Verified · WNEP
CommunityFree monthly sessions of art, music, dance, and games now run at Cuyahoga County libraries for people with dementia and the people who care for them.
Verified · The News-Herald
CommunityVariety Children's Charity of the Desert gave therapist-fitted bikes, about $2,500 each, to children from five families. One girl got hers the day before she turned 8.
Verified · KESQ
CommunityThe nonprofit gives bikes, riding lessons, and repair skills to children in low-income neighborhoods. Earn-A-Bike, summer camps, and Pedal Station are still growing, and a $35,000 match arrived before the fall luncheon.
Verified · The Gazette
CommunityVolunteers walk into laundromats, cover every load, and hand out hygiene kits. The visits are built around smiles and a chance to talk.
Verified · CBS Detroit
CommunityChildren being treated for cancer and other serious illnesses joined the football players, band, cheerleaders, and dance team. Proceeds support research at Siteman Cancer Center.
Verified · First Alert 4 (KMOV)
CommunityAt the Tulsa State Fair, McCoy noticed Harrison singing every word and invited him up. Wink is the song Harrison uses as his baseball walk-up.
Verified · News On 6
CommunityBaptist Health System's reunion at Brackenridge Park brought back children who are thriving, including 6-year-old triplets and a boy who spent eight months in the NICU.
Verified · Texas Public Radio
CommunityRiders, led by breast cancer survivors, raised funds so uninsured and underinsured women can get free screenings at Loretto Hospital on the West Side.
Verified · ABC7 Chicago
CommunityA sea of pink lined the 23rd annual run. Proceeds will help fund a 3D mammography machine for the local breast center.
Verified · WAFF 48
CommunityAbout 1,250 to 1,500 people filled Main Avenue for the balloon glow, and 25 to 30 balloons rose over Hermosa the next morning.
Verified · The Durango Herald
CommunityThe Education Rights Counsel hosted a free haunted house at the University of Nebraska Omaha for children who struggle with sound, touch, and sensory overload.
Verified · KETV
CommunityVolunteers at the county library mended lamps, fans, clocks, and a Roomba bought for $20. The cafe will return every other month.
Verified · Live 5 News (WCSC)
CommunityThe Salvation Army, Classic Cleaners, and WTHR handed out coats at the State Fairgrounds with no registration required. The program has passed 120,000 coats.
Verified · WTHR 13News
CommunitySusan G. Komen's walk at City Park drew thousands. The money is for breast cancer research, screening access, and support for patients.
Verified · CBS Colorado
CommunityAn estimated 30,000 to 35,000 people gathered at Moorland Farm for the steeplechase, where some families keep the same tailgate spot for generations.
Verified · News 12 New Jersey
CommunityWisconsin DNR opened a third-of-a-mile trail at Havenwoods State Forest with braille signs, audio guides, and loaner white canes, built mostly by staff with a $15,000 grant.
Verified · WISN 12
CommunityMore than 20 school and youth groups decorated city plows. The public's favorite will ride in the Nov. 27 Parade of Lights.
Verified · Dakota News Now
CommunityYoung patients at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh picked donated costumes and played games, decorated pumpkins, and played bingo.
Verified · WPXI
CommunityMore than 6,000 people joined the Susan G. Komen More Than Pink Walk on a sunny Saturday, including a 29-year survivor who has walked since 1997.
Verified · FOX31 KDVR
CommunityCare Earth Trust trained women and young people in birds, wetlands, and guiding. Eight of them now lead walks at the sanctuary as Golden Wings.
Verified · The Hindu
CommunityPlow & Pulse Foundation's free garden day was its biggest yet. Children planted vegetables, met a veterinarian, and took home a cabbage.
Verified · The Daily Iberian
CommunityJay, now at Willow Creek Elementary, hands out candy and high fives, writes notes on the boards, and hangs lost clothing with funny messages. Staff nominated him.
Verified · East Idaho News
CommunityFor more than 16 years, Camden Clark's Pink Mammogram Fund has covered screenings, diagnostic imaging, and biopsies for uninsured or denied women, with no bill.
Verified · WTAP
CommunityUnited Way Muscatine County and partners gave nearly 700 free Halloween costumes to 145 children in 45 families.
Verified · WQAD
CommunitySaving A Place For You opened a transitional home on South Saulsbury Road. Veterans can stay while they connect with services, and application fees are waived.
Verified · Delaware LIVE
CommunityThe National Center for Healthy Veterans in Altavista added housing, group classes, and therapy aimed at the move from military service to civilian life.
Verified · WSET
CommunityBarbers of Aberdeen spent their break cutting students' hair so they would head back to class feeling looked after.
Verified · WTVA
CommunityGraham Schroth, who finished leukemia treatment and is healthy, was the face of CancerFree KIDS' 100 Mile Challenge. About 4,100 people took part.
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CommunityDenver Health and Re:Vision have given urban-farm produce to 200 families in southwest Denver. The 12-week program is set to add the Westwood Clinic next year.
Verified · 9News
CommunityVolunteers turn donated flowers into bouquets for memory-care residents, recovery centers, and cancer treatment centers. A Caters Taters fundraiser is backing a rural expansion.
Verified · KVRR
CommunityThe Girls In program gives high school Girl Scouts 8 to 10 weeks of workplace visits, skills training, and internship connections in health care, finance, real estate, and construction.
Verified · The Maui News
CommunityEarl Monroe, Bill Bradley, Tracy Morgan, and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver helped open the permanent home of a charter school that had been in temporary space since 2021.
Verified · Spectrum News NY1
CommunityThe Native American Community Academy, with about 440 students from more than 40 tribal affiliations, held a sunrise ceremony, student performances, and a potluck.
Verified · Albuquerque Journal
CommunityFortin Gage Flowers & Gifts brought Petal It Forward back to Main Street. Each person received one bouquet to keep and a second to give away.
Verified · Nashua Independent
CommunityFriends Center for Children opened eight homes on Howard Street, built by Yale students, where early childhood educators live without paying rent.
Verified · New Haven Independent
CommunityThe National Library of Poland and the National Institute of Cultural Heritage signed an agreement to collect conservation research and share methods for protecting cultural heritage.
Verified · National Library of Poland
CommunityThe $34.5 million building gives 312 middle schoolers STEAM learning centers, a modern media center, and special education classrooms. It finishes a $78.5 million campus.
Verified · NBC 10 WJAR
CommunityChristina Allen founded Maryland's first Cycling Without Age chapter and rides about 2,000 miles a year, taking people to the market, the trail, or out with their grandchildren.
Verified · Southern Maryland Chronicle
CommunityAbout 4,500 people came to a Jazz and Justice Festival for the 12-acre park in Columbia Heights, which opened in 1936.
Verified · The Washington Post
CommunityRebuilding Together Richmond and more than 100 volunteers rebuilt porches, steps, and safer entries for older homeowners on fixed incomes in Petersburg.
Verified · WTVR CBS 6
CommunityThe Blue & You Foundation honored Providence Park, which offers permanent homes and on-site medical, mental health, and dental care, and is planning 400 tiny homes.
Verified · KATV
CommunityThe 1.3-mile Goose Island Connector Trail opened with a ribbon cutting. Most of the $365,000 cost came from a state transportation grant.
Verified · WIZM
CommunityThe second phase, paid for by a local sales tax, adds nine ballfields, including an adaptive field, plus two playgrounds and a concession building.
Verified · The Wichita Eagle
CommunityColumbus City Schools and the Columbus Metropolitan Library started the trips at Liberty Elementary. Nearly 4,500 students at 79 schools are included.
Verified · WSYX
CommunityThe Heart of New Ulm Community Fridge and Freezer sits near the children's room. No forms, no signup, and no library card are required.
Verified · MPR News
CommunityWin and Elaine Dermody cleaned a half-mile of Steamboat's Core Trail for eight years. The Veterans Center of Northwest Colorado is taking that section.
Verified · Steamboat Radio
CommunityResidents helped design the $2.23 million park, which includes inclusive play, a rain garden, and a place for vendors.
Verified · WWMT
CommunityStudents, parents, and neighbors at Mendoza Elementary spread 44 tons of donated rock, built benches, painted a dinosaur mural, and laid a River of Kindness of painted stones.
Verified · Las Vegas Sun
CommunityOccupational therapist Lindsay Kraun founded CP Soccer Atlanta after a patient said he wanted to play. Eight-year-old goalie Tayden Merrell says it means he is not alone.
Verified · 11Alive (WXIA)
CommunityA multigenerational group of Latina women at Mercado Local crochets pieces that now hang in downtown trees, in a partnership with the city.
Verified · KARE 11
CommunityFor the fifth year, florists in West Market Square gave people two flowers each, one to keep and one to give away, joining more than 700 shops nationwide in Petal It Forward.
Verified · WABI
CommunityThe Ozark Discovery Canopy on the Bentonville campus is open dawn to dusk, with a flowing creek, a spinning boulder, oversized hanging benches, and a family-sized slide.
Verified · Axios Northwest Arkansas
CommunityYoung & Established's weekly giveaway on Vann Avenue is open to anyone in need. Retailers including Walmart and Target donated meat.
Verified · WFIE / 14 News
CommunityUsing about $270,000 in School LAND Trust money for after-school help, summer credit recovery, and student advocates, Woods Cross raised its English-learner graduation rate from 92 percent to 100 percent.
Verified · KSL
CommunityThe Greeley nonprofit mentors about 1,800 students, most of them the first in their families to aim for college, starting in sixth grade. Every senior graduated in each of the past two years.
Verified · 9News (KUSA)
CommunityAt a powderpuff halftime in Birmingham, students with cognitive and physical impairments played or cheered beside Groves football players and cheerleaders.
Verified · ClickOnDetroit
CommunityThrough Go Baby Go, occupational therapy students turn toy cars into free rides with a go button, a harness, and side supports. About 30 families have been helped in five years.
Verified · KY3
CommunityThe 17th annual Toyota Tundra Food Drive collected more than 354,000 pounds of food, enough for about 295,000 meals.
Verified · NBC10 Philadelphia
CommunityCounty libraries launched a $36,205 campaign so children from birth to age 5 can get a book each month. About 1,400 children are already waiting.
Verified · WVIK
CommunityThe Portland nonprofit's roughly 22,000-square-foot Loft in Lair Hill will offer a climbing wall, counseling, and a lounge for caregivers.
Verified · OPB
CommunityDozens of first through eighth graders spent a morning at Millsaps College's Hangar Dome learning teamwork from former Mississippi State standout Eric Dampier Sr. and his son.
Verified · WLBT
CommunityHomeless No More broke ground on Grand Village, a $12.8 million mixed-income rental project on the old Grand Motel site, with homes for families with children and a community center. Nobody has moved in yet.
Verified · WIS
CommunityBrad Robbins, whose father started the family tree farm in 1975, was named Southern Regional Tree Farmer of the Year for sustainable management, with three generations still on the land.
Verified · KATV
CommunityAlexander Reis set a goal of 500 pairs for his Eagle Scout project and finished with 3,673. The Lions Club will send them to people who need them, and he also held a community health fair.
Verified · The Observer (Kearny)
CommunityDream On 3 and the University of Nebraska Collegiate Dream team gave Sam, who has Down syndrome and other health conditions, a three-day visit with on-field passes during Big Noon Kickoff weekend.
Verified · KMTV 3 News Now
CommunityGroundworks volunteers and the Roc Solid Foundation built a backyard playset for 8-year-old Chase, who is being treated for leukemia, and hid Spider-Man gifts in it for his family to find between appointments.
Verified · Amarillo Tribune
CommunityMount Calvary Lutheran Church has served more than 65,000 free community meals since 2012, about 110 every Wednesday, with a rotating crew of 20 to 30 volunteers cooking and serving.
Verified · WCVB
CommunityAuburn High seniors Pearl Simmons and A.K. Jackson started Touchdowns for Diabetes. Neighbors can pledge money for each touchdown or interception, and the gifts stay with a local diabetes center.
Verified · The Observer (Opelika)
CommunityOrange County's 58th Pumpkin Festival was free to enter, and for the fifth year children could get bracelets for the rides. Organizer Dustin Farris said a local carnival is the big trip many kids get.
Verified · Indiana Public Media
CommunityKingsford Middle School set out to raise $500 for the Lake Antoine playground and finished with more than $8,000. With other gifts, the campaign passed its $40,000 goal.
Verified · WLUC TV6
CommunityAssociates from the Arden Lowe's put up money and labor to repaint the playground fence and lay patio pavers under a shelter at the Salvation Army's West Asheville community center.
Verified · WLOS
CommunityThe Ottertail Lions Club spent about a year collecting 1,000 pounds of plastic film for Trex's recycling program and gave the resulting bench to the Fergus Falls Veterans Home, its third bench through that partnership.
Verified · Perham Focus
CommunityAlly Financial volunteers worked with students at Neinas Dual Language Learning Academy to redo the community garden, pack hundreds of snack packs, and make over the teachers' lounge.
Verified · CBS Detroit
CommunityThe 20th annual Yellowstone River Cleanup logged 3,277 volunteer hours. Crews pulled 191 tires, three engine blocks, and 16,170 pounds of trash, and recycled 75,328 pounds of metal.
Verified · Billings Gazette
CommunityAddy's Playground of Possibility opened Oct. 13 at Connections Education Center, with a communication board and signs for practicing real-world safety.
Verified · WPTV
CommunityFree Guitars for Kids is set to give 14 students at enCircle's Minnick School a guitar, a gig bag, a tuner, and a strap, plus online lessons. The giveaway had not happened yet when the story was published.
Verified · WDBJ7
CommunityAndy and Amy Corbin's 2,224-pound pumpkin set a new Wyoming record and put them in the 2,200 Pound Club, a mark fewer than 50 growers have reached. It grew in a patch thick with dandelions.
Verified · Cowboy State Daily
CommunityErik Chavarria of Hobbs CTECH won $75,000 from Harbor Freight Tools for Schools: $50,000 for his construction program and $25,000 for him.
Verified · 96.3 KKOB
CommunityKori Cannon has taught multilingual kindergartners from 22 countries over 16 years at Westgate Elementary. She was named State Teacher of the Year in Olympia and moves on to the national competition.
Verified · NBC Right Now
CommunityChilaka Ugobi of Our Redeemer's Christian School, a two-time state spelling bee champion, competes Oct. 14 for the national title and a $100,000 education savings plan. His topic is adult mental-health access.
Verified · KFYR-TV
CommunityCrews hauled out more than 600 tons of debris and refurbished about 40 rooms in under eight weeks. Students marked the return with an oli, hula, a lei for the school, and a run through welcome banners.
Verified · Hawaii News Now
CommunityOn Oct. 10, about 160 bands played on roughly 50 porches, stoops, and yards across Capitol Hill, Hill East, Lincoln Park, and Barracks Row. Neighbors put the free festival together in about two months.
Verified · Hill Rag
CommunityAbout 400 people in the four districts beside the park learned what to do after a dog bite, and a World Rabies Day clinic in Kinigi offered free dog vaccination.
Verified · IUCN
CommunityBradshaw, Iaeger, Coalfield, and Southside K-8 received centers with 3D printers, robots, and circuit kits from the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation and TC Energy, the first in the state.
Verified · WVVA
CommunityIndividual donors beat the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum's $25,000 Children's Library goal in a few months, and the Friends added $3,000. The money is for new nonfiction, a sensory-friendly space, and an outdoor playscape.
Verified · North Star Monthly
CommunityAt the hospital's annual reunion, Tasneem Hamdan brought her nearly 4-year-old twins back to the nurses who cared for them. One twin weighed 2 pounds, 2 ounces at birth. Their care led her to nursing school.
Verified · Denver7
CommunityUniversity of Kentucky engineering students adapted a ball cannon for 16-year-old Sam Roberts, who has 4H leukodystrophy. His first passes flew while friends cheered, and he will use it with teammates this fall.
Verified · Kentucky Today6 stories in this section this week.
Health & TechIn a study of 72 children ages 6 to 11, 10 weeks of occupational therapy with horses lowered cortisol more than the same therapy in a clinic. It is not a cure.
Verified · Colorado State University
Health & TechNew England Cancer Specialists expects its first CAR T infusion in November, so fewer Mainers have to travel to Boston. One Dresden patient treated in Boston says doctors cannot find detectable cancer cells. That is her case, not a guarantee.
Verified · Portland Press Herald
Health & TechThe FDA expanded Anktiva, given with BCG, to adults with BCG-unresponsive high-grade papillary-only bladder cancer. A related trial, not this exact group, saw a 62 percent complete response.
Verified · U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Health & TechIn an 80-week trial of 1,152 adults with obesity and type 2 diabetes, the highest dose of the experimental drug retatrutide cut weight more than placebo and lowered HbA1c. It is not FDA-approved.
Verified · Medical Xpress
Health & TechIn a small NIH-funded hospital study, 13 patients used a phone app to question their EEG monitor. False seizure alarms fell by about 80 percent. Larger outpatient trials are planned.
Verified · National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Health & TechZanvastro (zilganersen) is approved for a rare, often fatal brain disorder. In a controlled trial, treated patients 5 and older with walking trouble were faster at 61 weeks, and treated 2- to 4-year-olds gained motor skills while untreated children declined. It is not a cure.
Verified · Nature Biotechnology7 stories from outside the United States.
AnimalsCaptive-bred owls released since 2009 are nesting in the Wienerwald, and a related project in Bavaria has now recorded wild breeding too. A 2021 count put Austria at about 45 pairs.
Verified · BirdGuidesCommunityCare Earth Trust trained women and young people in birds, wetlands, and guiding. Eight of them now lead walks at the sanctuary as Golden Wings.
Verified · The HinduCommunityThe National Library of Poland and the National Institute of Cultural Heritage signed an agreement to collect conservation research and share methods for protecting cultural heritage.
Verified · National Library of PolandAnimalsThe turtle stranded on Jeju in 2019, tangled in abandoned fishing gear. After seven surgeries it was set for release from a beach in Seogwipo, without a tracking tag.
Verified · The Korea TimesScienceFive years after the Black Summer fires, camera traps found a similar set of native mammal species in burnt and unburnt bush. Feral cats were photographed more often than before.
Verified · NSW Local Land ServicesCommunityAbout 400 people in the four districts beside the park learned what to do after a dog bite, and a World Rabies Day clinic in Kinigi offered free dog vaccination.
Verified · IUCNAnimalsAt the Motín del Oro camp, in the community of El Coire, the season's first olive ridley hatchlings left the sand after a hard start of heat, dry sand, and storms.
Verified · MiMorelia34 stories this week are ready for a classroom read-aloud.
CommunityThe Great Waco Duck Race supports Dolly Parton's Imagination Library of Waco, which mails a free book each month to more than 2,000 McLennan County children.
Verified · KWTXHeroesEvan Hunter, his mother, and 27 volunteers spent Saturday writing thank-you notes to veterans. They have held the card-writing day every year since 2020.
Verified · FOX BangorAnimalsOklahoma State's College of Veterinary Medicine let families operate on stuffed bears. One student now in the program first did it at age 8.
Verified · KOCO 5HeroesAt Urban Air in Bellingham, a game of catch with 7-year-old Tristan Caron turned into 40 minutes of hide-and-seek and slides. The park plans a celebration day.
Verified · CBS Boston (WBZ-TV)AnimalsCaptive-bred owls released since 2009 are nesting in the Wienerwald, and a related project in Bavaria has now recorded wild breeding too. A 2021 count put Austria at about 45 pairs.
Verified · BirdGuidesCommunityMore than 20 school and youth groups decorated city plows. The public's favorite will ride in the Nov. 27 Parade of Lights.
Verified · Dakota News NowCommunityCare Earth Trust trained women and young people in birds, wetlands, and guiding. Eight of them now lead walks at the sanctuary as Golden Wings.
Verified · The HinduCommunityPlow & Pulse Foundation's free garden day was its biggest yet. Children planted vegetables, met a veterinarian, and took home a cabbage.
Verified · The Daily IberianScienceJohn Smolinsky of Earthbound Forestry uses his one-ton horse on small, steep, and sensitive woodlots. A horse compacts the soil far less than a heavy skidder.
Verified · Vermont PublicCommunityBarbers of Aberdeen spent their break cutting students' hair so they would head back to class feeling looked after.
Verified · WTVAHeroesThe Station 21 crew had just finished pet-care training when a veterinary clinic called for help with an emergency C-section. They cleared airways and moved the newborns into incubators.
Verified · WSB-TVAnimalsA concrete contractor brought a mini excavator, and firefighters and county road crews dug until a dog trapped since 5 a.m. jumped into her owners' arms.
Verified · WCTVAnimalsOfficer Marcus O'Connor took the babies to Twin Harbors Wildlife Center. After several months of care, he helped release all six on Oct. 3.
Verified · The Daily WorldAnimalsMontana Fish, Wildlife and Parks game wardens and a bear specialist caught the cub, cut off the plastic jar, and let it go unhurt.
Verified · NonStop Local / MontanaRightNowCommunityColumbus City Schools and the Columbus Metropolitan Library started the trips at Liberty Elementary. Nearly 4,500 students at 79 schools are included.
Verified · WSYXAnimalsShelter staff built a wheelchair from Hot Wheels and rulers for a stray kitten with a back injury. Tattoo artist Hope Hollandsworth adopted him.
Verified · The Washington PostCommunityOccupational therapist Lindsay Kraun founded CP Soccer Atlanta after a patient said he wanted to play. Eight-year-old goalie Tayden Merrell says it means he is not alone.
Verified · 11Alive (WXIA)AnimalsIn the 10 months since the Greenland crossing opened near Castle Rock, drivers hit two animals on a stretch that used to see about one collision a day.
Verified · The Colorado SunCommunityFor the fifth year, florists in West Market Square gave people two flowers each, one to keep and one to give away, joining more than 700 shops nationwide in Petal It Forward.
Verified · WABICommunityThe Ozark Discovery Canopy on the Bentonville campus is open dawn to dusk, with a flowing creek, a spinning boulder, oversized hanging benches, and a family-sized slide.
Verified · Axios Northwest ArkansasCommunityAt a powderpuff halftime in Birmingham, students with cognitive and physical impairments played or cheered beside Groves football players and cheerleaders.
Verified · ClickOnDetroitAnimalsA 10-year-old Jack Russell who slipped out of a Canyon Village cabin on Sept. 10 was waiting in a doghouse inside a humane trap. She had lost about 10 pounds and was reunited with her family.
Verified · Cowboy State DailyCommunityThrough Go Baby Go, occupational therapy students turn toy cars into free rides with a go button, a harness, and side supports. About 30 families have been helped in five years.
Verified · KY3AnimalsMore than 20 dogs turned up at Junto Winery for the third annual event. Blue River Pet Rescue has recorded nearly 200 adoptions so far in 2026.
Verified · Seward IndependentAnimalsHundo, who came to the zoo as an orphaned calf at about 150 pounds, left for Florida weighing 546 pounds. Manatee Springs then welcomed Tuglet, Smidge, and Zimomo.
Verified · FOX19 (WXIX)CommunityDozens of first through eighth graders spent a morning at Millsaps College's Hangar Dome learning teamwork from former Mississippi State standout Eric Dampier Sr. and his son.
Verified · WLBTCommunityAlexander Reis set a goal of 500 pairs for his Eagle Scout project and finished with 3,673. The Lions Club will send them to people who need them, and he also held a community health fair.
Verified · The Observer (Kearny)AnimalsOn his 15th birthday, Evergreen Park sophomore Daniel Kirincic found a lost cockatiel on the track bleachers. It matched a bird he had painted the year before, and the owner let him keep it.
Verified · Patch (Evergreen Park)AnimalsJean Quade turned a weedy back lot on Avenel Avenue into pollinator habitat large enough to be certified as a Monarch Waystation. Neighbors who had not met before now garden there together.
Verified · WDBJ7CommunityKingsford Middle School set out to raise $500 for the Lake Antoine playground and finished with more than $8,000. With other gifts, the campaign passed its $40,000 goal.
Verified · WLUC TV6ScienceFive years after the Black Summer fires, camera traps found a similar set of native mammal species in burnt and unburnt bush. Feral cats were photographed more often than before.
Verified · NSW Local Land ServicesCommunityThe 20th annual Yellowstone River Cleanup logged 3,277 volunteer hours. Crews pulled 191 tires, three engine blocks, and 16,170 pounds of trash, and recycled 75,328 pounds of metal.
Verified · Billings GazetteScienceAfter four Klamath River dams were removed in 2024, sonar counts recorded 7,742 Chinook passing the former dam sites that fall and more than 13,000 in 2025. The fish spread through 214 miles blocked for about a century.
Verified · MongabayAnimalsAt the Motín del Oro camp, in the community of El Coire, the season's first olive ridley hatchlings left the sand after a hard start of heat, dry sand, and storms.
Verified · MiMoreliaAll 50 states and Washington, D.C. have a story in this roundup.