The National Center for Environmental Health was hollowed out in the cuts of 10,000 federal health workers on April 1. That's the same day an assessment of people hurt in floods was set to begin.

The Legislature has approved a proposal to have the state Insurance Commissioner’s office assume the duties of the state securities commissioner. Insurance Commissioner Jon Godfread said it’s a good ...

The North Dakota House has passed its version of the budget for the state Ethics Commission. In that budget, a request for another employee to help with education was cut. And the measure requires the ...

The state Senate has voted down a bill to have the Legislature meet every year. Under the measure, the 80 day limit per biennium would stay in-tact. Senate Appropriations Committee chairman Brad ...

The state House has passed a bill that would require libraries to restrict children’s access to sexually explicit materials. SB 2307 requires that such materials be kept only in the adult sections of ...

The state Board of Higher Education has selected an interim Chancellor, to replace the retiring Mark Hagerott. The Board has chosen former Lt. Governor Brent Sanford. Sanford was lieutenant governor ...

The letter obtained by NPR marks a rare bipartisan critique from Capitol Hill of the administration's immigration policy.

President Trump wants European countries to start buying U.S. chicken and eggs. But the U.K. and E.U. think American poultry is gross and chemically washed. Turns out, chlorine isn't really the issue.

For the first time since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became health secretary, vaccine advisers to the CDC are meeting to discuss vaccines for RSV, HPV, COVID and more.

Prosecutors say the operation was aimed at gathering information to foil lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over damage communities have faced from climate change.

Weinstein's New York conviction was overturned last year. The new trial will retry the case alongside a brand new charge.

"I find myself wishing she didn't have him," writes an NPR listener of his new girlfriend's dog. Podcasters Haley Nahman and Danny Nelson weigh in.