No one wants rats scurrying about their neighborhood. But they're a cunning and evasive foe. Now, a community near Boston is trying their luck with a different approach: rat birth control.

Statistically speaking, climate change isn’t on the tip of most North Carolinians’ tongues — not often, anyway. How do we ...

American tennis player Taylor Townsend is gearing up for the U.S. Open. She'll take to the court as the top-ranked doubles player. Her story is one of resilience and overcoming preconceived notions.

The International Association of Chiefs of Police has issued two resolutions focused on ICE agents' use of face masks and heated comments around policing coming from influential leaders. Ari Shapiro ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to poet Raymond Antrobus about his new memoir, The Quiet Ear, and how he has navigated between the worlds of hearing and hearing loss.

The politics of air conditioning in France, as the country basks in yet another heatwave.

Cone Health is expanding its school-based telehealth program. It now serves 40 mainly high-poverty elementary schools ...

President Trump has threatened Democratic-run cities, like Chicago and Oakland, that if they don't "learn their lesson" and "clean-up" crime, he will get involved. But leaders of these cities say they ...

Red flags are expected to continue to fly because of high surf and rip current risks, and people are advised to stay out of the water until the storm passes.

Double red flags are flying at beaches in Pine Knoll Shores. The double flag means that the beaches are closed because ...

Onslow County Emergency Services Director Brad Kinlaw said while the center of the storm is expected to stay offshore, hey’re ...

Although the monster storm is expected to stay offshore, evacuations were ordered on such barrier islands along the Carolina ...