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The Port Neches chemical plant where two explosions and an ongoing fire prompted widespread mandatory evacuations Wednesday has a years-long history of...

The state’s bar has been set for schools to operate on a four-day week and the requirements could force many schools back to five days a week.

Every Thanksgiving weekend for the past 1 7 years, Arapaho and Cheyenne youth lead a 180-mile relay from the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in…

A retired businessman hoping to save his shrinking hometown launched a "Promise" program to pay college tuition for its students, but his plan might simply shift people around among dwindling towns.

From Baghdad to Hong Kong, protests have broken out all around the world in recent months. Is there a common thread?

Patients in hospital ERs can wait hours for inpatient beds to open up. The delays can be maddening. A solution for this long-standing problem has been elusive in the U.S., despite progress elsewhere.

Rising sea levels are not the only threat to Venice. As residents continue to leave, the city risks becoming an empty shell sinking under mass tourism. Some 30 million visitors arrive every year.

Meg Schmidt of Grand Rapids, Mich., says the Walk The Moon song helped get her — and most of her family — out of her comfort zone on one of the most special days of her life.

The second half of the season is where the rubber hits the road with the NFL. So, which teams are for real? Also, having fired their coach, will the Toronoto Maple Leafs finally get their moment?

William Ruckelshaus died this week. He was 87 years old. NPR's Scott Simon remembers his legacy as the first director of the EPA, and a defiant act against President Nixon.