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The problem appears worse in some communities, but it’s not often clear why.

Excessive spending at a 2010 conference that was held just off the Strip has led to Martha Johnson's resignation. Food and drinks alone cost taxpayers nearly $150,000.

Twenty years ago Wednesday, Sally Ride became the first U.S. woman to go into space. But a new book, The Mercury 13, reveals a secret female astronaut program decades earlier, eventually scrapped by NASA's "boy's club." NPR's Melissa Block talks with author Martha Ackmann.

Martha O'Donovan is accused of tweeting that Robert Mugabe, the 93-year-old longtime president, is "selfish and sick." O'Donovan, who denies the charge, has been released on bail.

Recent breakthroughs have accelerated worries that AI may soon replace humans in the workforce on a massive scale. Two experts talk through how and whether that could happen.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took something of a victory lap this weekend for his controversial flight sending migrants to the tony northeastern island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

Music tends to stay with people even as dementia claims other memories. In Vermont, Memory Cafes provide communities for both dementia patients and their caregivers.

Tobacco addition increased after "innovations" that made it easier to inhale, more addictive and less expensive.

This is part two of Martha's conversation with writer Jack Greer. They talk about the four years he mostly spent sailing the Caribbean on a 40 ft sailboat…

More than 100 physicians and crime prevention advocates gathered recently for an educational course on preventing gun violence.