Few Arkansas cities pack as many students into as small a footprint as Conway. The University of Central Arkansas, Hendrix College, and Central Baptist College all sit within a few miles of each other, which gives the city its nickname, “The City of Colleges.” That energy is part of what makes Conway a great place […]

Portland has spent years building one of the most bike-friendly street networks in the country, and riders have responded. On any given afternoon, a single bike lane on a busy corridor might carry commuters on road bikes, parents on cargo e-bikes, delivery riders, and someone on a rental e-scooter heading to the MAX. That mix […]

Car washes don’t feel like dangerous places. There’s water, some rollers, a conveyor, a few brushes — nothing that looks like a refinery or a steel mill. That’s exactly why the citation OSHA announced on September 23, 2026 is worth reading closely: it’s a reminder that “willful” violations, the most expensive and reputation-damaging category OSHA […]

Horizontal directional drilling — HDD — exists partly because it’s the safer alternative to open-cut trenching. Instead of digging a trench and exposing workers to the cave-in risk that makes excavation one of construction’s deadliest activities, crews thread a drill string underground and pull pipe through without anyone standing in a hole. It’s a genuine […]

The Mine Safety and Health Administration issued a safety alert warning that many U.S. mine impoundments are operating under conditions their original designers never anticipated — reported by Safety+Health Magazine on September 9, 2026 (Safety+Health Magazine, Sept. 9, 2026). Notably, this alert isn’t a response to one specific failure. It’s a systemic warning: many impoundments […]

Most of the coverage of a new report on classroom heat has focused on teachers and students. But there’s a workforce inside every school building that’s just as exposed to high heat — and squarely covered by federal workplace safety law — that’s barely mentioned: custodians, maintenance technicians, kitchen staff, bus drivers, and grounds crews. […]