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A boy growing up in the mining country of Southern Oregon’s Illinois Valley had plenty of opportunity to get into mischief. Orval Robertson was no…

The last few days have seen dramatic developments related to the spread of COVID-19. NPR's health policy reporter Selena Simmons-Duffin breaks down the recent updates.

The physical history of Northern California’s coastal redwood region is linked to the human populations that have interacted with it, from pre-contact…

One of the nation's top economists explores the past and future of work in cities. He finds that opportunities for workers without a college degree are drying up.

The U.S. Forest Service is adopting a new rule meant to prevent power lines from sparking wildfires on public lands like California’s deadly 2018 Camp Fire.

An NPR analysis of COVID-19 vaccination sites in major cities across the Southern U.S. reveals a racial disparity, with most sites located in whiter neighborhoods.

The president and his personal lawyers are looking to the high court for help in two developing legal battles over the tax returns, testing the separation of powers.

With millions of vaccine holdouts, the state is holding off on tough measures — for now. But if events and ads aren’t enough, how far will legislators go?

A former bureau attorney is alleged to have doctored evidence to enable the surveillance of an ex-junior foreign policy aide to Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

Oklahoma and Texas have been experiencing a rash of human-caused earthquakes. It happens when oil and gas wastewater gets pumped underground in the wrong places and disrupts faults. Oklahoma officials have cracked down on wastewater injection; Texas is apparently uninterested in doing much. That could mean a lot more quakes given that the country's biggest oil reservoir has just been discovered in west Texas.