Growing up, my dad told me the best job I could ever have is working for the government for three clear reasons: stability, ...

The California Service Corps is recruiting 10,000 members for paid positions tackling key community issues, including climate change, education, food insecurity and disaster response.

The government-downsizing effort says it’s canceling more leases used by energy and environmental workers around the country.

Today, Governor Gavin Newsom and Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement (GO-Serve) Director Josh Fryday announced California is ...

Former Peace Corps members shared their concerns and mixed emotions over the agency’s uncertain future as the U.S. government ...

I served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Lesotho, an experience that changed my life. As a professor at Wittenberg University, I have taken more than 500 students on service-learning trips to Lesotho, ...

N.C. Cooperative Extension Agent Bart Renner has been working with agriculture production, ecological conservation, youth ...

March 1 marked Peace Corps Day when President Kennedy signed a 1961 executive order to establish the Peace Corps. Since 1961, more than 240,000 volunteers have served in 144 countries worldwide ...

Respecting taboos here in Madagascar is a must, no matter how bizarre they may be. To ignore a taboo is to risk being blamed ...

KANEOHE, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii's American colonizers once banned the Hawaiian language in schools. Some Native Hawaiians tried ...

Peace Corps boosts U.S.

President Kennedy launched a bold experiment: the Peace Corps. Since its founding, nearly 250,000 U.S. citizens, including 2,000 from the state of Maine, have served as Peace Corps volunteers in 140 ...