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Whooping cough, or pertussis, cases may have peaked in an outbreak in Henderson and Transylvania counties in Western North Carolina counties. Health officials are concerned gatherings such as summer camps could further the spread.

After a month of record-breaking heat, are we past calling it a heat "wave?" NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Duke heat expert Ashley Ward.

The NCAA basketball tournaments can be onslaught of unfamiliar names and terms enough to make any casual viewer nervous. We're here to help. (Except for NET. We can't explain NET.)

These slimmed-down episodes are perfect for attention spans shortened by TikTok. I don't need to see the whole story — not even how it ends — as long as the conveyor belt of clips keeps rolling.

The NBA Playoffs get underway later Tuesday and — for the first time ever — not a single team from Texas will be playing and all four teams from California made the playoffs.

Wildland firefighters are in demand these days, but federal money to pay their salaries is quickly running out.

NPR's Planet Money team looks into how expanding legal pathways to work in the U.S. could affect the migration levels at the southern border.

More people have died from unsafe use of generators after hurricanes than storm surge since 2017. The National Hurricane Center wants to focus attention on generator safety.

A new study has examined the potential ramifications of declining an invitation for a social outing, and found that people tend to overestimate just how much it matters.

Terry Holland elevated Virginia basketball to national prominence during 16 seasons as coach from 1974 to 1990.