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Oil production in the tar sands of Canada is increasing as the demand for crude in the United States rises. The production of synthetic crude may meet U.S. needs, but it comes at a cost.

Robert Siegel talks with Norwegian Jazz Pianist Tord Gustavsen about the art of jazz improvisation and his new album The Ground.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Andriy Kulykov, a Ukrainian radio journalist, about the latest on the ground in Kyiv.

Female Marines have been training for the past month at Camp Lejeune, trying to make it through infantry training. They've got a month to go, including a 12-mile hike with a heavy pack. They're the first ones ever to handle the training, part of an effort to integrate women into combat positions by 2016.

Atlanta area donors didn't want to see the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s papers go up for auction, so they raised enough money to bring the collection to the city's library for historically black colleges and universities. Many say King's papers will be at home in the city of his youth.

How have developers balanced respect for ground zero's history with taking advantage of some of the most valuable property in the world?

A year after 19 children and two teachers were killed at Robb Elementary School, there are plans to build a new school on a different location than the one where the mass shooting took place.

The World Health Organization gathered data from 139 countries for its first-ever report on how to prevent drowning.

Witnesses saw a "flaming basketball" streaking across the sky, then heard a loud crash, then Dustin Procita's house went up in flames. But that may be a coincidence, not the fire's cause.

The Wall Street Journal recently ranked the state’s largest city as the nation’s top emerging housing market. Locals paint a more complicated picture.