As students prepare to return to school, a Dove Creek youth program shows how rural communities fill summer meal gaps through food boxes, local funding and volunteer labor.

After a lengthy discussion, a divided Cortez City Council on Tuesday passed an ordinance that sets the language for a November ballot question. The measure will ask city voters to approve an increase ...

As students return to school in southwest Colorado, districts are preparing for late-summer heat both inside classrooms and on outdoor athletic fields. Montezuma-Cortez School District is managing ...

More than 2,000 people have now died from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The outbreak is the second-largest ever and shows no signs of slowing.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Dr. James Campbell at the University of Maryland School of Medicine about President Trump's order to space out childhood vaccines.

Sailors and family members who were evacuated from U.S. bases in the Middle East months ago are waiting for the military to figure out what will happen to the lives they left behind.

President Trump boarded Air Force One last month as usual. But the Washington Post reports he was smuggled off the plane in a catering truck and flew on an entirely different aircraft due to a threat.

NPR's A Martinez talks with comedian Jeff Arcuri about the stand-up comic art of crowd work, which involves talking to audience members and ad-libbing off what they say.

Monuments to the brutal history of the transatlantic slave trade still stand all along the coast of West Africa. And growing interest from tourists, including many from the U.S., is driving an effort ...

A cult classic album that found late success may now find a whole new generation of fans. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) SUMMERS: The record is called "Synthesizing: Te ...

Russia has released a former U.S. Marine after holding him in prison for more than four years. President Trump says that Robert Gilman was freed on humanitarian grounds. His supporters say he was near ...

President Trump's new tariffs on Canadian products are scheduled to take effect next week. Trump announced last month he wanted a 50% tax on many Canadian imports - from clothing to building materials ...