Lockdowns at multiple Placer County high schools were lifted Friday after receiving threats, authorities announced. Del Oro ...

Lockdowns. Social distancing. Shuttered schools and businesses. The COVID-19 pandemic and its sweeping disruptions set off a stampede of “what it’s doing to us” research, focused largely on ...

As many as 30% of children and teens across the world were nearsighted in 2023, a new study has revealed. Diagnoses of nearsightedness (myopia) are expected to worsen over the next two decades, ...

A recent study reported the somewhat alarming observation that the social disruptions of COVID lockdowns caused significant changes in teenagers’ brains. Using MRI data, researchers at the University ...

Three high schools in Highlands County were placed under precautionary lockdowns Tuesday after they received threats over the ...

"Attention parents: Our school has been placed on lockdown." A message parents never want to receive. Unfortunately, school lockdowns have become frequent nationwide, regardless of the community. A ...

Two separate threats led to two lockdowns at Riverside High School on Tuesday morning. The incidents made students and parents uneasy about what's unfolded over the last week on campus. Two separate ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the intersection of people, risk, leadership and performance. As business leaders mark the fifth anniversary of COVID-19 ...

Ross, Julia, and Amanda, three very successful young professionals living in Manhattan, all died of drug overdoses four years ago, in March 2021. The Wall Street Journal reported on their deaths as a ...

Two Miami-Dade schools were placed on lockdown amid a large police response Wednesday morning. Kinloch Park Elementary School ...