The average cost for back-to-school supplies for families is now around $890. Families are invited to attend their local event, and each present child will receive one backpack while supplies last.

Our youth is growing into misaligned versions of themselves and the culprit is right behind them: the schoolbag.

He brought lightweight packs to millions of students and transformed the way they carried their textbooks to school.

UNICEF is distributing urgently needed school supplies to help children displaced by violence get back to learning.

"I think it feels amazing," Kristin Rinker said about delivering the backpacks to staff at Old Fort Elementary in western ...

Seattle-based entrepreneur and inventor of the modern backpack, Murray McCory, died last month at the age of 80.

The giveaway provided hats, scarves, coats, sweaters, backpacks and school supplies to those in need as the begins to get ...

Though backpack bans are rare, school leaders across the state face a similar imperative to protect students from violence by any means necessary, oftentimes with limited resources at their disposal.

Heavy school bags can have numerous harmful effects on children, significantly impacting their physical health and well-being ...

A student has been arrested after school officials said they found a weapon in their backpack at Holmes High School.It happened Friday morning when school officials said an administrator found a ...

HAPPENED. WE ARE EXPECTING AN UPDATE FROM THE BREVARD COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE AFTER SOMEONE FOUND A GUN NEAR A SCHOOL. THE WEAPON WAS IN AN ABANDONED BACKPACK IN A VACANT LOT NEARBY. IT WAS NOT ...

Police said the teen left Tilden High School in East Flatbush during dismissal and then came back just after 4 p.m. with a loaded gun. That's when a scanner found a .9mm gun in his backpack ...