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The league is set to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars from expansion fees and a new media rights deal. And the players' union is pushing for a new contract to change a legacy of low pay.

The sport of ski mountaineering is new to the Winter Olympics this year but its origins go back more than a century in the Alps.

NPR's Erika Ryan reports from the site of one of the nation's largest sewage spills ever — just outside of Washington, D.C. — in January.

A new ordinance bans outdoor balloon releases within the boundaries of the town’s property.

In 2008, Chicago's mayor decided to lease out the city's metered parking system — to privatize all 36,000 of its parking meters.

On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Author Jennette McCurdy talks about her experience with eating disorder recovery.

President Trump's U.K. state visit this week won't include the Scottish island where his late immigrant mother was born. Mary Anne MacLeod was a Gaelic speaker who learned English as a second language.

In recent years, mobile crisis response teams respond to 911 calls about people in mental crisis, to avoid involving police. But some crisis units have now closed for lack of consistent funding.

Singer and actress Brandy speaks with NPR's A Martinez about her memoir, Phases, which charts her journey to stardom from singing in church in rural Mississippi to the bright lights of Hollywood.

The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar jumped to more than 1,600 on Saturday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the scores of buildings that collapsed.