Escape the cold and dive into a good book with the Hocutt-Ellington Memorial Library’s 2025-2026 Winter Reading Challenge.

NBC 5, Telemundo 39, and the Fort Worth Public Library are Reading With You this winter. FWPL made a winter reading list of over recommended books.

Here are the four stories you need to know for December 9, 2025.

Naperville Public Library’s 30-Day Winter Reading Challenge for children and teens runs from Dec. 15 to Jan. 31 and offers prizes.

It’s a bit early to say whether the Midlands will see snow this winter, but one thing is known. Temperature and precipitation is likely to be affected by La Niña, a system that begins in the ...

Acclaimed illustrator and author Jeanette Winter, a pioneer of picture book biographies and nonfiction, many of which focused on brave women fighting for social justice, died November 7 in New York ...

Direct Weather has released their final long-range winter forecast of the year. Now, only time will tell what Mother Nature has up her sleeve. The winter Solstice is just over a month away and ...

A record 77.3% of Mississippi third graders passed their initial reading assessment in spring 2025. The total pass rate, including retests, reached 84.6%, a slight increase from the previous school ...

The latest results of Mississippi's third-grade reading test show no dramatic declines in student performance. But they show no significant gains, either. Since 2021-22, the first year of student data ...

This winter’s footwear feels less trend-chasing and more about small shifts in how you get dressed (a tough assignment when done in the freezing cold). On the runways, designers played with fit, ...

Climate troublemaker La Niña will play a starring role in the United States' winter weather, federal forecasters from the Climate Prediction Center said Thursday, Nov. 13. "La Niña continued over the ...