More than a decade ago, Erin Barnes came across data that drove home the importance of grassroots, volunteer-led groups. The U.S. Forest Service was trying to document all the groups that maintain ...

When the pandemic struck, Kent Taylor, 80, was at a loss for how he would get groceries. Taylor didn't own a car, and given socialization restrictions the friends he had relied on to take him shopping ...

Sharifah Taylor had all but given up on getting a COVID-19 vaccine. She had a frustrating time trying to book an appointment online, repeatedly confronted with a blank white screen instead of a ...

On Wednesday night, photos posted to Twitter appeared to show something borderline unthinkable: Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas boarding a flight to Cancun, Mexico. In the middle of a pandemic. And in the ...

Karen Smith sipped an iced coffee and charged her phone in the shade next to the Mayhew Bakery in New Orleans’ Mid-City neighborhood on Thursday. Since Hurricane Ida knocked power off across the city, ...