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Sarasota formalizes a plan to fund its $20 million promise to the north county project.

Shipping containers may seem like a sustainable construction material, but are they actually eco-friendly? Many people don't want a heavily-used container — and the energy bills are through the roof.

As Spaniards migrate from villages to cities for work, education and access to health care, rural hamlets are ending up on the auction block. Foreigners are in the market for these properties.

Nationwide, fewer than 10 percent of people who need kidney dialysis do it at home. But close to 40 percent of patients of a Montana doctor do it at home. Medicare is hoping that becomes a trend.

NPR's Mary Louie Kelly speaks with The Athletic reporter Madeline Coleman about the big news out of Formula 1: Lewis Hamilton is joining Ferrari.

Fosbury stunned the sports world with a backwards flop over the high jump bar at the Mexican Olympics in 1968. He won gold, and invented a new jumping style still used today.

As people age, they may be surprised to find that younger folks don't understand what they're going through, but adult children or caretakers can do a lot to help older people adjust to a new reality.

During the coronavirus pandemic, TikTok and Instagram creator Hobby Bobbins taught herself how to restore vintage dresses. Now, she's brought dozens of old wedding dresses back to life.

Christian Wiman says he's no longer afraid of dying. "When death hangs over you for a while, you start to forget about it," he says. Wiman's new book is Zero at the Bone.

After 14 years in the NFL, Anquan Boldin has hung up his cleats to focus on human rights activism. He says that events in Charlottesville, Va., led him to decide to change careers.

A high school teacher in Houston has a library in her classroom of books she's not supposed to have, per state legislation. Students say she's helping them survive. (Story aired on ATC on 1/29/24.)

January is the first month since July 2021 that more than 36 million families in the U.S. did not receive money from the expanded child tax credit program. For some, the consequences are already dire.

Kristin Ziegler of Denver, Colo., remembers her grandmother Elfriede Liselotte Matza Froisland. She died of COVID-19 in 2020.

Keret's memoir, The Seven Good Years, spans the time between the birth of his son and the death of his father, who was a Holocaust survivor. Originally broadcast June 16, 2015.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with children's author Susan Verde about her book "Body Beautiful"

Growing up in an Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, Mizrahi says he stood out like "a chubby, gay thumb." He's written about his unlikely path into the fashion industry in his new memoir, I.M.

The conference, known as COP28, opened in Dubai on Thursday. Questions focus on whether real action will be taken to slow global warming, and on the host country as a major oil producer.

In the new film Nomadland, director Chloe Zhao blends fact and fiction. The film follows the life of the modern-day American nomad in the aftermath of the 2008 housing and financial crises.

When filmmaker David McCourt's grandfather came to the U.S. and landed a job, he considered himself neither rich nor poor and thus, in his estimation, had achieved the American dream.

Feiffer, who died Jan. 17, first published his self-titled comic strip in The Village Voice in 1956. Later syndicated, Feiffer went on to run for more than four decades. Originally broadcast in 1982.

President Trump returns to the U.S. after wrapping up his whirlwind trip to China.

NPR has reviewed the documents TikTok didn’t want you to see regarding children's safety. Here's what we found. And, the environmental concerns behind Elon Musk’s rocket Starship.

Evening Masterwork: Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Op. 55 “Eroica” for January 24, 2024

Misinformation about the election and the coronavirus is also gaining a foothold in American society, according to a new NPR/Ipsos poll.