DENVER — The Durango Fire Protection District was repeatedly denied insurance coverage for the construction of its new downtown firehouse earlier this year because of — wait for it — the wildfire risk.

“We literally are a fire station building a fire station next to a next fire station between a river and a highway,” Durango Fire ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The attorney for Andrew Lester is asking for his client to be evaluated, saying there are signs of declining mental health in the man accused of the high-profile shooting of Ralph Yarl, according to court documents.

In the motion filed Tuesday, his attorney, Steven Salmon, described a man who has become frail due to ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego County Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday to join a growing trend nationwide to restrict youth access to social media platforms.

After failing in a split vote last month, with Chair Nora Vargas absent, the board once again took on the matter Tuesday. This time, the proposal to explore suing social media companies ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center is now tracking two Atlantic systems with a chance to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook Wednesday, the bigger threat to Florida remained what is expected to become an area of low pressure that could form in the central tropical...Read more

ATLANTA — The last hurrah of the summer will mean yet another packed weekend at airports and on the nation's roads.

AAA forecasts domestic travel will be up 9% nationally over Labor Day weekend compared with last year. The nation's busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, is preparing to handle more than 2.3 million ...Read more

TikTok must now face a lawsuit brought by the mourning mother of a 10-year-old girl from Pennsylvania who died while she attempted a viral challenge that dares participants to choke themselves until they pass out.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court in Philadelphia on Tuesday revived the suit filed by Tawainna Anderson after her daughter, Nylah Anderson...Read more

Israel launched a large-scale military operation in the West Bank to combat what the army said was terrorist activity, the latest series of hostilities in the Palestinian territory since the start of the war in Gaza.

Nine Palestinians have been killed and 11 have been injured, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, which said Israeli ...Read more

In the month before Matthew Perry’s death, a doctor the actor contacted to acquire ketamine called him a “moron” in a text message, according to federal prosecutors.

A dealer who authorities say supplied the drug to Perry referred to him as “Chandler” — the sarcastic yet sweet-natured character he played on the hit television show �...Read more

Climate change has been in the news for more than 40 years. It’s typically covered as a scientific or political issue. However, social scientists like me have found that feelings and values are what drive people toward broad, collective change – not charts, graphs or images.

Surveys confirm that the majority of Americans now ...Read more

Doctors and nurses seldom learn in school how to tell a family that their loved one is not going to survive. Yet health care professionals face the immense burden of tragedy, illness and dying in an intensely stressful setting as a routine, ongoing part of their jobs.

Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, research was documenting rampant...Read more

The current strain of avian flu, H5N1, is responsible for the culling of millions of domestic birds and has sickened more than a dozen farmworkers in 2024, most recently in Colorado.

The Conversation U.S. asked immunologist and microbiologist Jenna Guthmiller from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus to explain the ...Read more

Shortly before Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s 2024 presidential candidate, several national polls and primary voting results indicated that Donald Trump had peeled away one of the party’s most reliable voting blocs – people of color.

Such was the case with polls suggesting that Trump was expected to ...Read more

The current presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is shaping up to be an extremely tight contest. Any number of last-minute factors might earn votes for one candidate or the other. Late-breaking economic news, international conflicts, personal gaffes or revelations – all may be enough to tilt the election.

There ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Third-graders struggling to read won’t necessarily be held back, according to an updated draft literacy policy from the Maryland State Board of Education.

The policy initially mandated that students unable to read at grade level would repeat the third grade, but the revised version allows families to seek a waiver that would ...Read more

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Blocks from where tourists stroll along the cobblestoned riverfront in this racially divided city, Detraya Gilliard made her way down the dark, ruptured sidewalks of Yamacraw Village, looking for her missing 15-year-old daughter.

Like most other people living in one of the nation’s oldest public housing projects, Gilliard ...Read more