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Residents of St. Mary's in southwestern Alaska are donating food to firefighters and helping clear brush as the region's largest wildfire looms just a few miles from town.

For nearly three decades, incarcerated people have not been able to access federal Pell Grants to pay for college courses offered in prison. That will change this summer.

The only thing more surprising than a podcast about the sewer system is a comic book series about the sewer system. See a transcript of this episode along with more photos and videos at wvxu.org/backedup. Find us online: @cincinnatipublicradio @beccacostellonews @holdshelf

Students returned to South Avondale School Friday, after a raccoon incursion this week. CPS officials ordered the school closed Wednesday until the…

Homelessness reached an eight-year low in 2021 while diversion shelter assistance reached an eight-year high in Hamilton County.

Drug overdoses are killing more people than ever in the U.S., and a new CDC report finds growing racial disparities among those who have died — with the largest increase among Black Americans.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Nancy Rotering, the mayor of Highland Park, Ill., about the mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in which six people died. Police say a person of interest is in custody.

The National Weather Service reported multiple tornadoes Saturday in northeast Texas. Flooding in Arkansas has killed at least three people so far, from storms that continued into Sunday.

Jillian Hanesworth is the poet laureate of Buffalo, N.Y. In the aftermath of the racist attack that left 10 people dead, Hanesworth is hoping to validate the myriad of emotions people have now.

The original Wonder Woman film takes place during WWI, but Jill Lepore, author of The Secret History of Wonder Woman, says the Princess of the Amazons has also been fighting a "war" off-screen.