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Amid a surge in omicron cases and hospitalizations, public health leaders are grappling with how to get a tuned-out public to pay attention. Experts urge communicators to cut through the noise.

More than two dozen groups filed lawsuits challenging the measure, saying it's intended to make it harder for Black and Hispanic residents to vote.

A new NPR survey shows 11% of Americans have experienced extreme heat in the past five years and had health problems stemming from a lack of air conditioning at home.

A graphic series of anti-meth advertisements has hit the airways in Montana. The ads are designed to grab the attention of kids and inform them about the dangers of methamphetamine. Thomas M. Siebel, chairman of the Montana Meth Project, talks with Melissa Block about the campaign.

Former U.S. Rep. Abby Finkenauer is facing a tougher-than-expected Democratic U.S. Senate primary in a state that has become more of a GOP stronghold in the last decade.

The injunction is based on concerns over the state's method of execution. A state judge had earlier halted the killings because of complaints over the state acquired its lethal injection drugs.

The death toll doubled when two additional bodies were found within the burn zone of the McKinney Fire, the state's largest blaze of the year.

Terry Brennen, retired director of community funding for WGCU public media, had been infected with Vibrio vulnificus, a saltwater bacteria carried in storm surge that’s has led to an unprecedented spike in cases in Florida – 65 so far this year – the most since the health department began tracking cases in 2008.

Florida state Sen. Shevrin Jones, a Democrat, says the proposed course "wasn't indoctrination, it wasn't ideology, it was facts." He fears blocking it will harm students in Florida and beyond.

It's a mystery why dozens of horses are being found dead with gunshot wounds on public land near the Navajo Nation in Utah.