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About 300 people came to the first public meeting about the Gibralter Ridge Fire at Eureka High School last night

Injured Gibralter Firefighter Says Embers Fell Like Snowflakes

I met Jarrell Miller at the fire information meeting in Eureka Wednesday night. He was one of the first people to respond to the Gibralter Ridge Fire...

Annie, a Belgian Malinois from the Institute for Canine Forensics, looks for human cremains in what's left of a home in Santa Rosa.

Forensic Search Dogs Sniff Out Human Ashes In Wildfire Wreckage

Cremated loved ones were in some of the thousands of homes incinerated by wildfires in October. Archaeologists and search dogs are now looking for lost urns and human cremains among the rubble.

Carmen Rivera (at left in the orange dress) sits on a cot at the Cataño shelter. She suffers from severe asthma and knee pain and has had to be rushed by ambulance to the hospital for asthma treatment twice since the hurricane. She says she feels forgotten by authorities.

Desperation In Puerto Rican Town Where 60 Percent Are Now Homeless

In Cataño, near San Juan, the storm left hundreds living in a shelter where conditions are becoming increasingly dire.

An aerial view of a neighborhood destroyed by the Camp Fire on November 15, 2018, in Paradise, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

How One Wildfire Survivor Learned To Heal After Losing Everything

Whether it's a wildfire or a condo collapse, a disaster services attorney and a survivor of the 2018 Camp Fire outline how to heal — physically and mentally — from such a sudden uprooting.

Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier (left) and District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty face reporters March 18 after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the constitutionality of the district's handgun ban.

Supreme Court: Individuals Have Right to Bear Arms

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday said the Washington, D.C., law banning handguns violates individual rights protected by the Second Amendment. The court had not conclusively interpreted the Second Amendment since its ratification in 1791.

In numerous recent interviews, educators have told NPR they're concerned the rural-urban divide will only worsen if kids can't get online to learn.

In Internet Dead Zones, Rural Schools Struggle With Distanced Learning

Many American schools are back in class via distance learning. It's stressful everywhere but especially in rural districts where most students lack high-speed Internet and cell phone service at home.

Surviving Air France Flight 358

When Air France flight 358 from Paris to Toronto had a bumpy landing that ended with the plane skidding off the runway, the passengers and crew remained calm -- but didn't waste a chance to evacuate. Olivier Dubois was sitting in the rear of the A340 Airbus.

Austen Unvarnished: Q&A With Jo Baker, Author Of 'Longbourn'

Jo Baker's Longbourn retells the events of Pride and Prejudice from the point of view of the servants. Baker tells NPR Books editor Petra Mayer that the predicament of the Bennet sisters is well-known, so she wanted to explore the situation of the servant girls with no father, home or dowry.

Flames consume a building as the Park Fire tears through the Cohasset community in Butte County, Calif., on Thursday.

Lightning and a burning car pushed into a gully are blamed for wildfires in the West

As evacuations continued in California, some Oregon residents were cleared to return home after a storm dropped welcome rain but also potentially dangerous lightning on the biggest blaze in the U.S.

An update on the deadly wildfires burning in the Los Angeles area

Multiple major wildfires continue to burn out of control in the Los Angeles area, forcing thousands to evacuate. Hear the latest on the devastation and efforts to contain the blazes.

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