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Tropical storm Helene caused 'catastrophic' damage to Asheville’s water treatment and distribution system, cutting off at least 70% of the city’s drinking water supply.

Natural gas utilities likely will face stricter federal regulations for their climate-warming methane emissions. Among the biggest sources of leaks is the meter outside a gas customer's home.

Israel has recently attacked locations far from the fighting, killing in total almost 200 displaced Lebanese people. NPR went to the site of one of those attacks.

NPR's A Martinez asks Michigan state Representative Alabas Farhat about efforts to help U.S. citizens leave Lebanon, amid continued attacks by Israel on Hezbollah.

In Pasadena, The Gamble House was in a fire evacuation zone and its custodians are trying to safeguard its future. In Altadena, only concrete walls are left from the former home of novelist Zane Grey.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Mario Tapia, founder of the Latino Center on Aging, and Maria Aranda of the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, about quality care issues once a diagnosis is made.

Jr. Shelton, the mayor of Central, La., says 25,000 of his city's 27,000 residents have been affected by this month's historic flooding. He tells NPR's Ari Shapiro how the community is recovering.

Despite the growth of population in the western U.S., water use in cities such as Denver, Las Vegas, San Diego and Phoenix is going down. The reason? High-tech, low-flow toilets.

Kids – even some young kids – are being exposed to an unprecedented amount of pornography online and a lot of it is violent and misogynistic. There are tools parents can use to block this content.

Wildfires in California have set a new record, but some fire scientists say focusing on that number is doing more harm than good.