Neal Morton covers K-12 schools in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

A cash transfer program for high schoolers resulted in better attendance and more financial literacy, but no improvement in ...

Three high schoolers from Flower Mound, Texas, won a $50,000 scholarship at the Regeneron International Science Fair for designing and creating a mind-controlled robotic prosthetic leg for one of ...

Michael Boulware Moore, his great-great-grandson and author of the book “ Freedom on the Sea: The True Story of the Civil War Hero Robert Smalls and His Daring Escape to Freedom ,” joins host Anthony ...

The changes include allowing home health care workers to be paid below minimum wage, removing transportation requirements for migrant farm workers and no longer requiring adequate lighting at ...

Piping plovers have been in decline for a while but are miraculously thriving in Massachusetts. WBUR’s Barbara Moran reports.

The Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of the 1980s passed with bipartisan support. But when voters revolted, Congress repealed the law.

Israel has expanded its ground offensive in Gaza as Gaza’s population of two million people is crammed into just 12% of the territory’s land.

The catastrophic floods along the Guadalupe River killed 135 people, and the survivors are still trying to make sense of what ...

The days have been shorter than normal, at least if you count your time in milliseconds. As NPR’s Nell Greenfieldboyce reports, Wednesday is predicted to be a tiny bit shorter than usual. This article ...

A study analyzed decades of births and found that larger families showed a distinct tendency toward all girls or all boys, ...

NPR newsroom chief Edith Chapin says she's leaving the network. She made the announcement just days after Congress voted to strip public broadcasting of all federal funding.