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NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Jackie Biskupski, mayor-elect of Salt Lake City. She is the first openly gay mayor of the city, and one of the first openly gay politicians in the state of Utah.

A Dutch firm is making the yacht. When it's done, it wont fit under a famous bridge in Rotterdam. The city decided to partially take apart the bridge and put it back together after the yacht passes.

Beshear warns that hospitals in the commonwealth are expected to have more COVID patients by the end of the week than at any time during the pandemic.

The bridge was built mere yards from where Francis Scott Key watched the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in 1814, inspiring him to write the song that would become the U.S. national anthem.

The construction company in charge when the exit ramp collapsed onto I-75 last month says it made an engineering mistake that may have lead to the…

Using a rare Oval Office address, the president called last week's deadly San Bernardino shooting "an act of terrorism" and outlined how the U.S. is working to combat the growing threat from ISIS.

A group of lawmakers is looking into where Ohio is falling short when it comes to repairing roads and bridges, and how to bring in more money.

A transcript reveals what was happening aboard a cargo ship in the moments before it crashed into the Key Bridge in Baltimore last year, collapsing the bridge and killing six workers.

The bridge linking the U.S. and Canada reopens after police remove the last protesters. The Russia-Ukraine standoff continues. A Russian figure skater is cleared to compete at the Beijing Olympics.

For two engineers the Memorial Bridge is more than just a bridge. He once worked on the bridge and she helped design the park underneath it. He arranged to have the bridge lifted and then proposed.