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The White House hopes to jumpstart high-speed rail in the U.S. with money from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Much of the funding announced this week will go to projects in Nevada and California.

Updates on COVID-19 in the Bay Area and California.

A $1 million court-ordered air pollution monitoring program is kicking into gear this month near the Bullseye Glass facility in southeast Portland.

The daily effects of strong winds, large waves, as well as rising sea levels — which are fueled by human-caused climate change — are causing beaches on the Outer Banks to wash away.

Mount Lassen awoke in a brief series of eruptions between 1914 and 1917, resulting in a mushrooming column of ash seen as far away as Eureka and Sacramento.

The earthquake only lasted about 20 seconds, but in that time it killed 72 people and injured thousands.

NPR's Scott Simon revisits a 2018 conversation with Maria Ressa who runs the Filipino investigative news site Rappler. Ressa was one of two journalists awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

Commentator Kelly Beatty says that when he was growing up, space exploration was all about one thing: the race to the moon. It was easy to measure progress leading up to a specific goal. Now that space exploration is all about the planets and the solar system, there is a dizzying array of spacecraft traveling all over the place.

A fuel tanker collided head-on with two buses. It happened between Kabul and Kandahar, on a road where drivers are known to speed to avoid militant checkpoints.

The private space company's Falcon 9 rocket is bearing 10 satellites into orbit. SpaceX's launch came months after a blast wrecked its most recent test.