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A heat dome has sent temperatures spiraling in rural and urban areas. Local governments have issued warnings and set up ways for residents to cool off in an effort to prevent heat-related deaths.

In Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt, author Ben Reeves imagines Death as an ordinary man. He talks with NPR's Scott Detrow about love, loss and what mortality can teach us about living.

Competitions will be hosted at 25 venues spanning an area of more than 8,000 square miles. Here's what's happening at each of the four main clusters.

Many spent their careers training on the mountains they'll be competing on at the Winter Games. Lindsey Vonn wanted to stage a comeback on these slopes and Jessie Diggins won her first World Cup there.

A proposed first-of-its kind tax would target California's nearly 250 billionaires in an effort to fund health care. If voters pass it, will the state's economy suffer?

Deaths and close calls while fighting wildfires have strained an already on-edge workforce. They've also raised questions about policies and priorities amid an intense wildfire season.

NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben talks unicorns and dragons with bookstore owner Starlin Marot. Fantasy romance novels are her best - and only - sellers.

Shortly after the COVID-19 lockdown began, Ashleigh Bell Pedersen was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer. During treatment, she came to desperately miss physical touch.

Many of the people who lost their homes in the Spokane fires are just beginning to take stock of the damage and start to think about what it may look like to rebuild.

As a new school year approaches, student athletes across Texas are returning to the field for fall sports, even as punishing heat lingers. How are rules and practices changing?