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Bartenders are finding novel ways to reuse leftover wine and spent ingredients from cocktail-making. It's just one part of a nascent movement toward sustainability in the industry.

Irrigation is no longer an option in Kansas’s smallest county, reports the Baldwin City Signal. After decades of overuse, the water source beneath Greeley…

The mood of the voters is one of the most important political factors in an election year. This year voters are anxious, frightened and angry — for a lot of good reasons.

A local regulatory body has filed a civil suit against the Southern California Gas Co. alleging negligence over the ongoing natural gas leak near Porter Ranch in Los Angeles.

The National Park Service is hiring a full-time photographer to document the country's natural landscapes. NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Rich O'Connor of the National Park Service photography program about the position, which some are comparing to the job held by Ansel Adams in the 1940s.

Suburban Chicago police Officer Joseph Gliniewicz staged his suicide last September to look like a murder, sparking a massive manhunt. It turns out he had embezzled from a city program for years.

Statistics on health problems and death are sobering. But an author of the report finds reasons to be hopeful as well.

Private insurers billed California $387.5 million to treat just 3,624 patients with new medications for hepatitis C. The people are covered by the state's Medicaid program.

Mammograms should start at age 50 and be performed every two years until age 74, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says. For some women in their 40s, the benefits may exceed the risks.

Princess Cristina, the sister of Spain's king, is accused of tax fraud. She is the first Spanish royal to be charged with a crime and has become a symbol of corruption in Spain's ruling elite.