Karnataka's Women and Child Development Minister Laxmi Hebbalkar announced the 'Akka Force' initiative to combat child pregnancies and marriages.

Niagara SPCA and Humane Society staff say affordability challenges in Ontario are contributing to a recent surge of abandoned ...

There are fears that ruling may further disadvantage small companies and workers already struggling to make ends meet. Read ...

A state will fork out almost half a billion dollars in subsidies for the greyhound racing industry over the next decade, ...

Animal advocates are urging Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey to release African elephant Joyce to a sanctuary, ...

A Woodhull woman has been arrested on welfare fraud charges after officials say she stole benefits from the Steuben County ...

On the day before Social Security’s 90th anniversary, fiscal watchdogs are urging Congress to seriously address the program’s ...

President Trump issued an order banning federally funded benefits for undocumented immigrants. California and other states ...

Hill-Lilly's departure comes as CT awaits another key child welfare role — leading the Office of the Child Advocate — to be ...

Lily’s announcement comes just a couple of months after DCF Deputy Commissioner Michael Williams left the agency for a new role in Oklahoma child welfare.

Prosecutors allege Sherry Bodhaine, 61, failed to disclose her son's employment with Halliburton when applying for food ...