Administrators at the University of Colorado's campus in Colorado Springs believed they could avoid the Trump administration's focus on higher education

Two and a half years after a derailed train spewed toxic gases across eastern Ohio, none of the nation’s largest freight railroads have fulfilled promises to join a voluntary federal close call program designed to reduce rail hazards and prevent accidents.

It’s been 65 years since John F. Kennedy first spoke of America’s “New Frontier.” From there, he built a safety net, a civil rights framework and a global plan to lift the world further from poverty.

Calabasas residents thought it would be easy to keep wildfire ash from being trucked to their local landfill. They were wrong.

If the rural hospital down the road were to close, the closest hospital would be at least an hour away in Roanoke. The 65-year-old said she has looked at the statistics of what her chances of survival and quality of life would be if she had to go that far.

Around 7.2 million men have dropped out of the workforce. That has a host of consequences that could take decades to reverse, experts say.

A miscalculation allowed a small blaze to roar out of control last month, destroying a historic lodge and other buildings on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.

The counties with the highest use of pesticides per square mile are all located in Missouri’s Bootheel. Many of these counties have some of the state’s highest cancer rates.