Cities

The small Monmouth County borough is joining a regional wave of inclusive park builds designed to serve children with disabilities alongside their peers.

The Hannah Atkins Completely Inclusive Playground aims to go far beyond the bare minimum accessibility standards that have left many disabled children on the sidelines.

The Battlefords region's primary ice facilities date to 1959. A new twin-pad events centre would serve a trading area of up to 40,000 people, but funding remains the central challenge.

The remote Ferry County town of about 1,000 people is tackling a childcare desert, library shortfall, and lack of gathering space with one civic building on the school campus.

The project, funded by a 2023 voter-approved sales tax, would replace a seismically vulnerable 1976 library that residents have long outgrown.

The Pickleweed Branch Library has squeezed immigrant and low-income families into 2,000 square feet for nearly two decades. A redesign aims to finally change that.