A section of California's scenic Pacific Coast Highway that has been closed since January's deadly Palisades Fire reopens in ...

NC Project Lead, a non-profit organization, hosted a forum on analyzing the impact of socioeconomic determinants on health.

The Justice Department says it has reached an agreement in principle with Boeing to drop criminal charges over two fatal ...

A budget report from the House Appropriations Committee released this week slashes a $6 million funding line for Coastal ...

NPR asked researchers, advocates, tax experts, a parent and a public school leader for their thoughts on this ...

The secretary of the state department of environmental quality visited Wilmington last week on a tour of nature preserves.

The cost of homeowners insurance is soaring in states where large outbreaks of tornadoes are becoming more common. But it's ...

New Hanover County Schools’ Superintendent recently overruled two committee decisions on Blended, a young-adult novel about a ...

Jonaki Mehta is a producer for All Things Considered. Before ATC, she worked at Neon Hum Media where she produced a documentary series and talk show. Prior to that, Mehta was a producer at Member ...

Ratings from both federal and independent safety monitors have been dropping, and employees say that understaffing has caused ...

At the opening of the public hearing Tuesday, a handful of residents showed up to share their priorities in person. Three people spoke about plans to defund the mounted police unit, all of them ...

Nicole Cohen is an education editor at NPR. Prior to joining the Education Desk, she was a producer for NPR's Arts Desk, where she produced and edited arts features and interviews for NPR.org. She was ...