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The Salmon River in Siskiyou County, Calif., earned a reputation during the California Gold Rush as “the richest little river in America.” Mining…

President-elect Joe Biden inherits a global health landscape changed by the Trump administration more than under any Republican president since Ronald Reagan.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders announced they have reached an agreement over how to close a cavernous $54 billion deficit in California’s state budget, following more than a month of negotiations.

George W. Riddle came to Oregon by covered wagon in April of 1851, settling with his family south of Roseburg. He was 11 years old.Some 65 years later he…

John S. Love, his two brothers and their widowed mother started out with other friends from Pennsylvania to Oregon in April 1853.At Fort Boise, they and…

Nearly 90 percent of Kentucky's electricity is from coal — the cheap energy source that helped build its manufacturing economy. Now it's struggling to respond as more businesses want clean energy.

Vernon Bookwalter began flying in 1919 with flight certificate No. 82 signed by Orville Wright.Bookwalter piloted the first southbound air mail flight in…

Ivan Hathaway Jones grew up in Oregon listening to his grandfather tell stories in the German style known as Munchhausen, that takes its name from the…

Is it possible to hear the music of 2020 without getting lost in the noise? NPR Music's critic Ann Powers studies a year during which nearly everything about loving music was turned upside down.

In West Virginia, mining jobs have been declining for years, and there have been few other options to make a living. The Appalachian Beekeeping Collective is hoping to help turn that around.