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The Michigan Legislature is considering three bills that would change how the state determines environmental rules.Senate Bills 652, 653, and 654 would…

The Trump administration intends to restrict the flow of refugees and immigrants into the United States, causing concern for organizations that help…

Like the dot-com bust it presaged, the feeding frenzy that took place in the wake of Nirvana's success was an ill-advised search that led, in a way, to Hootie and The Blowfish. Is there a lesson here?

Medicare compiles ratings of agencies' quality and of patients' perceptions. But the stars assigned by the government often don't align.

The 2012 Supreme Court decision in Miller v. Alabama held that mandatory sentences of life without parole for juveniles were unconstitutional. The court’s…

The Olympic sport of curling is a combination of bowling, bocce ball, billiards and chess — all on ice, and with some sweeping involved. NPR's Tamara Keith spent some time learning how to curl, and put together this cheat sheet.

Marvin Kalb's new book is about a very interesting year — 1956 — that he spent on a diplomatic mission to what was then the U.S.S.R. It's part memoir, part context for understanding the Cold War.

There's nothing quite like the desperation to communicate with loved ones we've lost — and it's that desire that fuels Thomas Pierce's richly imaginative debut novel The Afterlives.

As it roared through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, packing winds of up to 200 mph, the twister flattened buildings. Searchers continue to look for survivors and those who were killed.

The state has filed a lawsuit against the shoe company believed to have caused ongoing groundwater contamination in Kent County.The Michigan Department of…