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As the world's second-worst Ebola outbreak in history drags into a new year, experts think the solution is less about medicine, and more about security.

Picard, Calif., doesn’t exist today, but in the late 1800’s, it was a small town in California’s Butte Valley south of Klamath Falls. Elizabeth Reed Brent…

More than 80 percent of federal lands in the Santa Monica Mountains burned in the Woolsey Fire. National Park Service biologists are looking at what was lost and determining what may come back.

Former President Trump obsessed with the Fulton County elections department, which covers Atlanta. His conspiracy theories and lies led to violent threats and intimidation of the department's workers.

Before she died in 1948 in Talent, Ore., Susan Haines Clayton had become one of, and maybe the last, Union Civil War nurses still alive. She was born in…

The Department of Energy is considering the future of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Some argue it's no longer needed or should be smaller because U.S. oil production has increased.

Jefferson Public Radio broadcast an As It Was story last month about ballet dancer Janet Reed Erskine, who was born in Tolo, Ore. The story’s sources…

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Greg Wyshynski, ESPN senior NHL writer, about how the Tampa Bay Lightning went from one of the year's best teams to best team in NHL history to be swept in the first round.

Ashland would have been a very different kind of place if that mill had stayed on the creek in the heart of downtown. Instead, the mill came down and the…

Even today people ask how Greenhorn Creek, an early mining district south of Yreka, Calif., got its name.The most colorful story was related by a Mr. Bean…