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The Portland Clean Energy Fund has raised a billion dollars for climate change action via a retail tax on large corporations in the city. Other cities are starting to shape similar funds.

The suspect who attacked a synagogue in Michigan lost family members in an Israeli strike in Lebanon on March 5. Relatives and neighbors in his hometown share their views on his actions.

The huge al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria for years has posed an intractable problem — a destitute and increasingly dangerous detention site where ISIS ideology lives on.

In her new book You've Been Pooping All Wrong, Dr. Trisha Pasricha shares habits and practices to make your relationship with your solid waste as smooth as possible

Photographs help us look back on the moments that defined the year. Taken by NPR photojournalists nationwide, this collection goes beyond the headlines to reveal quietly powerful human stories.

The U.S. Postal Service's leader says it is set to run out of money in less than a year and may have to stop deliveries because of declining mail volume and what USPS sees as burdensome requirements.

The Michigan Legislature adjourned Wednesday evening after missing the July 1 legal deadline to adopt a state budget. There's no penalty for missing the deadline.

Michigan’s aging crisis, honeybees from Florida helping the pollination of cherry trees, Michelle Yang on her new memoir and Grand Rapids Public Museum and Kentwood Public Schools commemorate the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.

On today's show, the unfolding saga surrounding a series of charges against officials in the Flint water crisis. Plus, the World Economic Forum in Detroit. And an update on Vladimir Konstantinov andn auto no-fault.

A report from the World Health Organization says 1 in 4 people lack access to safe water to drink. Even more don't have water for sanitation. We asked someone who grew up that way to share childhood memories.