Rural Alabamians southwest of Huntsville will have drive longer distances for health care starting today. Lawrence Medical ...

Fans of an Alabama jazz pioneer are celebrating his life this week. The first ever so-called Sun Ra* Festival runs through ...

NPR asked researchers, advocates, tax experts, a parent and a public school leader for their thoughts on this ...

Grilling usually involves burning fossil fuel. But some manufacturers are offering electric grills and citing climate change ...

The U.S. has officially accepted a luxury jetliner from Qatar as a gift, and slated it to become a new Air Force One. Experts ...

A deadlocked U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday effectively blocked the creation of the nation's first religious charter school in Oklahoma.

Today's StoryCorps is about a love that lasted through the seasons. Patrice Hudson was apprehensive about online dating until she met Byron Ball, a high school science teacher who, like her, was a ...

Five years after the killing of George Floyd, NPR's Michel Martin visits the Minneapolis intersection that has become a memorial to his life: George Perry Floyd Square.

Some 50,000 people have been isolated by the flooding in New South Wales, after days of heavy rain. Four bodies have been ...

Six people, including music talent agent Dave Shapiro, were on board a private jet that crashed into a San Diego neighborhood ...

The academy in Emmitsburg, Md., is often described as the national war college for firefighting. It offers training that ...

The suit claims that efforts to get sensitive information about food aid recipients from states violates federal privacy laws ...