A La Niña winter just started, but it isn’t expected to last long. National forecasters are already looking ahead to the spring season.

One state senator is taking shots at animal protection groups. Senator Casey Crabtree says Senate Bill 14 protects agricultural production facilities from what he calls “agro-terrorism.” The bill would increase penalties for trespassing or damages on an agriculture production facility.

Army at Holy Cross, 6 p.m. Boston U. at Navy, 7 p.m. George Washington at UMass, 7 p.m. Lafayette at Loyola (Md.), 7 p.m. Lehigh at American, 7 p.m. Xavier at St. John's, 7 p.m. Furman at VMI, 6 p.m.

North Dakota State Bison (12-6, 4-1 Summit) at South Dakota Coyotes (9-10, 3-2 Summit) Vermillion, South Dakota; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: South Dakota will try to keep its four-game home win streak intact when the Coyotes play North Dakota State.

Climate change is in the headlines. From the chill of northern Alaska to the heat of Arizona, here are the coldest and warmest cities in each U.S. state.

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order temporarily stopping the Lava Ridge project, among others.

Peltier was active in the American Indian Movement, which began in the 1960s as a local organization in Minneapolis.

National Weather Service meteorologists warned of temperatures cold enough to be fatal descending across most of the nation.

Appalachian St. at Marshall, 1 p.m. Bryant at Mass.-Lowell, 1 p.m. Bucknell at Navy, 1 p.m. CCSU at Fairleigh Dickinson, 1 p.m. Davidson at St. Bonaventure, 1 p.m. Fairfield at Canisius, 1 p.m. Manhattan at Niagara, 1 p.m. Penn at Cornell, 1 p.m. UMBC at Maine, 1 p.m. Wagner at Mercyhurst, 1 p.m. Army at Boston U., 2 p.m.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said the No. 1 threat to the U.S. is immigration at the southern border with Mexico.

The overall average breast cancer incidence rate in the U.S. was 131.8 per 100,000 and the overall average breast cancer mortality rate was 19.3 per 100,000. Among women in the U.S., breast cancer accounts for 32% of all cancer cases and 14% of all cancer deaths, the report found.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul is pushing for cell phones to be banned in the classroom statewide. Hochul proposed on Wednesday to legislatures in hopes of passing the act in time for the upcoming aca