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People speak very differently depending on where they live, and the climate and environment might have something to do with that. Crisp English consonants don't carry well in the rain forest.

The flooding overwhelmed houses, leaving a coating of mud — and in one case, setting a car atop a structure's walls. Rescue crews are still looking for survivors. At least one person has died.

We love apps. We'd love to lose weight. So weight-loss apps sound like a win. But tech-savvy young adults using an app didn't do any better than those trying to control weight the old-fashioned way.

One of the two-state consortia behind new, Common Core-aligned tests has released questions from its spring assessments.

In this episode, Tony interviews Dr. Russel Kolts, Professor of Psychology at Eastern Washington University.

A staffing shortage at Western State Hospital has created a crisis situation. Federal inspectors this week determined that patients and staff face...

Washington is unlikely to meet a January deadline to provide jail inmates with court-ordered mental health services within seven days.

Author Michael Cunningham was fascinated by fairy tales as a child — but he always wondered what happened after the story ended. His new collection, A Wild Swan, tries to answer that question.

Hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees have now reached northern Europe, and most have found official temporary housing. But in France, 6,000 people are stuck in an unofficial shanty town.

It's one year until people will vote in the 2016 presidential election. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with NPR's national political correspondent Mara Liasson about where candidates stand right now.