Lance Daly has been through a heroin addiction, multiple stints in jail and gang violence and now wants to help people remove the marks of the past that are stifling their futures.

A country football league is moving on from race riots in its community and embracing the AFL's Indigenous round with all five clubs in the small competition to wear specially-designed, Indigenous-themed guernseys.

An aged care facility says robotic pets are lighting up the lives of its residents and bringing comfort during isolation from the coronavirus pandemic.

Holowiliena Station is in the grip of a horror drought, but reviving an ancient trade is proving a lifeline to this farming family.

Zohara and Celia wanted to give back to their community, but they found it hard to find the time around their studies. Until they found pop-in volunteering.

A coastal paradise town becomes a safe haven for refugees, despite being outside of a government-supported resettlement zone.

It is an endangered 'living fossil' and foxes and wild pigs love to eat it, but there is a glimmer of hope for one of Australia's most striking and mysterious creatures.

Two young South Australian entrepreneurs launch their own social enterprise selling sanitary products whose profits will go to disadvantaged women fighting period poverty around the world.

Josh Meredith lives with Down syndrome and is helping change community attitudes towards disability in the workplace.

Already waiting for two previous inquiries to be acted upon, support agencies say the new family law inquiry announced last week will require they take resources away from frontline services in order to participate.

Researchers say an online tool to help understand where Australia's Bogong moths have disappeared to is starting to show promising results.

When Sue Owen's hair fell out, she honed her skills in tying head scarves and "funking up" turbans. She now makes sure other patients "look fabulous".

Running outside and swimming in the ocean is a rare luxury for eight students who lived through the terror of the tsunami that hit the Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011.

In some of the darkest corners of the Gold Coast, a hug from police liaison officer Saga Selsby can be life-changing.

Before the ambulance existed, if outback Queensland locals had an emergency, they had to drive to themselves to hospital.

She's been described as "the friendliest dog in the world", but Lucy was rejected by three families before she found her forever home. The affectionate labrador is now helping others face their own stressful situations.

Norm Henderson knows what it's like to be in the darkness of drug addiction, but even he has been surprised by the grip ice has on smaller towns and communities.

She already had years of experience in humanitarian work, but Carly Learson describes her Myanmar role as "probably the toughest job I've ever had".

Launched on January 29, the Ohio State: Wellness app builds on the recommendations in the 2018 Suicide and Mental Health Task Force report to provide “clearer, more concise explanation of available services and access points, with more definition ...

Xtreme Pro Apparel, a sports attire company based in Broomfield, specializes in producing anti-microbial fabric necessary for wrestling singlets to combat skin disease. Now it will make face masks to assist in combating the coronavirus.

Faith and a newfound sense of purpose have helped Josh Jones cope over the past year since the STEM School shooting, even as he ponders -- without answers -- why he and his friends have had to deal with this tragedy at their young age.

The actress found an important way to get involved.

There are joining forces with a country singer.

The hip-hop producer is going through his nonprofit.

The rappers are giving 100,000 masks across the nation.

His impromptu show has also provided comic relief.

Jillian Mercado is the face of the pop icon's online store.

Her book is a must-read career guide for women of color.

TRB's “Tell Us ‘Our’ Story" challenge is now looking into the future. What impact do you hope to have on the world and how is the Transportation Research Board helping you make that impact? What is your vision for the Transportation Research Board 100 years from now? What are solutions that you have identified as a result of research you learned about through TRB? TRB welcomes all stories: small or large, profound or light-hearted, sobering or humorous. In addition to posting responses to these questions...

TRB's “Tell Us ‘Our’ Story" challenge is now looking into the future. What impact do you hope to have on the world and how is the Transportation Research Board helping you make that impact? What is your vision for the Transportation Research Board 100 years from now? What are solutions that you have identified as a result of research you learned about through TRB? TRB welcomes all stories: small or large, profound or light-hearted, sobering or humorous. In addition to posting responses to these questions...

Covid-adjacent but mostly about adapting to circumstances rather than the illness directly.

If you're suddenly homeschooling your children, or if you're suddenly having to teach online when you're used to face-to-face, there are several things I might be able to help with. I have a lot of experience and knowledge of education, all age groups from about aged 7 to university-level. My current job is primarily about online learning so I know quite a lot about both the pedagogy and the technology. I can offer advice on how to teach a range of topics, what online resources are available, or conversely how to adapt the expertise you already have to a virtual context.

I'm no expert on homeschooling, so I'm probably not the best person to help you plan your curriculum, decide your educational philosophy etc. I'm thinking more on the individual topic or activity level. My professional training is in life sciences, and I have a fairly solid grasp of maths, biology and chemistry. Plus quite a lot of experience of tutoring in random other subjects like literature and religion and social sciences. I'm less useful at sport and creative arts, but I can still probably help to find resources and give advice on a general level.

Another thing I can offer, and would actually be quite happy to do, is I can give some direct external input into your teaching. Sometimes children don't take learning entirely seriously, or get over-invested emotionally, if teacher is also their parent, and a new person can be useful. So I can give a virtual lesson if we can arrange a time and topic, or I can set a novel task for a pupil, or I can look at and give helpful, constructive comments on something your children have created, even grade or mark things if you're into that. Feel free to PM me if you're not comfortable discussing details in public.

Aside from that, I wanted to plug covidcoffeecorner, which is a lovely little community where people post a different topic every day and a few dozen people chat about it. So if you miss mostly topic-centred communities from LJ (or even older systems) it might be worth having a look. There's also fictional_fans which has picked up a lot of activity lately, if you are interested in fandom-related (in the broadest sense) topic-focused discussions.

I assume few people are actually short of reading material, but I wanted to recommend a couple of collections.

With COVID-19 “stay at home” advisories in effect across the globe, an unlikely technology has come to the aid of public safety agencies responsible for enforcement measures: drones. Government officials everywhere have asked citizens to

By Isaac Cabe  Published: May 07th, 2020 

Dominican Yankees and Mets stars are working with Pedro Martinez to respond to the coronavirus pandemic in their homeland.

While the COVID-19 pandemic keeps New Yorkers separated by face masks and social distancing and self-quarantine, a growing number of city residents are connecting through local mutual aid groups now sprouting across the shuttered boroughs.

Dominican Yankees and Mets stars are working with Pedro Martinez to respond to the coronavirus pandemic in their homeland.

Biden has 'work to do' to win Latino support and trust, and it's hard to get a message out in a pandemic.

The Ottawa Senators are among the NHL teams that will assist arena workers in danger of losing paychecks during the NHL's suspended season.

NHL players Logan Couture, Marc-Andre Fleury, Anze Kopitar and Ryan Getzlaf find plenty of time to show off on video chat amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dominican Yankees and Mets stars are working with Pedro Martinez to respond to the coronavirus pandemic in their homeland.

The Dodger Dog is not available at the ballpark right now, but the Dodgers will be distributing hot dogs from their ballpark.

Dominican Yankees and Mets stars are working with Pedro Martinez to respond to the coronavirus pandemic in their homeland.

In six days, the It Takes Our Village fund has raised nearly $790,000 for crew members put out of work after the coronavirus pandemic halted production.

Here's how two Hoosiers are helping feed local artists and creatives impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

More than 100 companies and nonprofits have pledged support for the Your Life Matters initiative, created to help the city's most vulnerable residents. That's a great start, but momentum is critical.

How do you help millions of passengers navigate one of the world's largest airports? In Turkey, the answer is a fleet of humanoid robots.

Researcher: Christopher Butson, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah. Christopher Butson talks about work he's done to help treat Parkinson's disease.