Days after the shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School, the community is questioning its resilience — and safety.
Sex, video games and grandparents on the campaign trail.
The city of Bend, Ore., is praising those who worked to stop the gunman at Silver Rail Elementary School. The authorities are searching for answers.
Megan Lambert graduated from high school in the district where she taught. She died in a classroom with Rhoam Summer and two other children when a shooter attacked.
Plus, the Friday news quiz.
A teacher wrestled a shotgun away from a 16-year-old who opened fire on a special education classroom at an Oregon elementary school, the police said on Friday. As they fought, an armed bystander shot the attacker dead.
Plus, Katie Zacharia’s ouster, A.O.C. on the trail, and another tense debate in Maine.
The boy who attacked a school in Bend is said to have used his mother’s gun. Some states have passed measures to address similar situations.
The National Park Service is reviving a practice that was banned by the Biden administration and condemned by conservationists.
Prosecutors in New Mexico had secured an indictment of the actor and director on charges he made sexual contact with a child actor. He had pleaded not guilty.
The Republican incumbent, Dan Sullivan, and his Democratic challenger, Mary Peltola, veered from serious discussion of high prices and economic challenges to blistering personal attacks.
The contest between the Democratic incumbent and her Republican challenger is on edge.
The father of two girls at Silver Rail Elementary School, who confronted the shooter, was grateful for the support of the community and has asked for privacy.
He was 16 years old and used a pump-action shotgun registered to his mother.
The city of Bend is grappling with the shooting at Silver Rail Elementary, which killed three children and a teacher.
After swimming across chilly waters to Whidbey Island in Washington State, the solitary elk charmed residents for more than a decade with his antics. He died at 15 to 18 years old.
Residents of Bend attended a candlelight vigil after the shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School, in which three children and a teacher were killed.
A long string of school shootings have stricken the nation over the last three decades.
A teenager opened fire at the Silver Rail Elementary School, killing three children and one teacher, before he was fatally shot by an armed bystander.
The state has passed restrictive measures popular among gun safety activists. The Silver Rail Elementary School shooting seemed poised to set off conversations about gun control.
Three children and a teacher were killed in a shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Ore., on Thursday. The shooter was also dead, the police said.
“It’s just something that we live with here in America,” said Leah Schwartz, who heard the violence in Bend, Ore. “It’s exhausting.”
The suspect in the shooting was killed at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Ore., according to the authorities, and the conditions of the injured were not immediately known.
Statehouses make health-care policy, guide education, and may redraw congressional districts ahead of 2028. With the stakes high, more than 6,100 legislators will be elected Nov. 3.
Track the latest polls in New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District.
Track the latest polls in New Mexico's 1st Congressional District.
At a political rally in Arizona, President Trump said that government sources who leak military plans should be shot.
When social media posts denouncing the police surfaced, they were supposed to harm a socialist’s re-election. But the democratic socialists of Portland, and other cities, are showing their strength.
Expect to stop renting by your late 30s (but don’t expect to live in Los Angeles or New York).
At a rally in Arizona, the president dramatically escalated his attacks on news gathering and those willing to speak to the press.
Lisa Lerer, a New York Times national politics reporter, joins Natalie Kitroeff on “The Call” from a cow auction in Calhan, Colo., to discuss how rising agriculture and diesel costs are making farmers disillusioned ahead of the midterms.
Homes include an Italianate brick home in Schenectady, N.Y., a bungalow in Springfield, Ore., and a farmhouse in Plainfield, Ind.
When we recently featured a few of the best car-free bike rides in America, readers had a lot of recommendations for trails we had missed. We picked five to share.
The president has stepped up his offers of financial rewards to voters with just weeks until the midterms. On Tuesday at a rally in Alaska, he announced pardons.
Duane Keith Davis was convicted by a jury of obtaining a gun and pursuing the rapper in a violent act of revenge in 1996.
Duane Keith Davis on Tuesday was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting that killed Tupac Shakur.
It takes doing things conservatives and progressives both dislike.
An executive with the Republican super PAC that paid for the ad attacking Troy Jackson, the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, blamed its vendor for running the ad in Oregon.
Rhenda Strub invited strangers to accompany her to Seattle Mariners games this season to help overcome the loneliness of grieving for her son’s death.
Heavy rain from Post-Tropical Storm Rachel flooded parts of the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday.
Here’s one fan’s guide to visiting some of the genre’s fabled filming locations, from “The Shining” to “Friday the 13th.”
As fly fishing became less like a hobby and more like a lifeline, could a retreat help ease my emotional burden?
Joseph Yracheta was in charge of a repository that compiled and protected tribal health data. Then its funding was cut.
Many Americans bought their first houses when mortgage rates dipped to record lows. Some are ready to move but feel locked in by their low rates.
The guidelines, from California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii, mirror those of major medical organizations. They were issued a day before an advisory panel was set to meet to review potential changes to federal recommendations.
Governors in California, Oregon and Washington said their states would work together on vaccine guidance in a time of turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A Nevada business owner prepared and filed false tax returns to fraudulently obtain Covid relief money for her businesses and others, prosecutors said.
Una pandemia humana puede prevenirse, incluso ahora, dicen los científicos. Pero una serie de acontecimientos de las últimas semanas indica que la posibilidad ya no es remota.
A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected.
The industry is pumping ever more oil and natural gas, but it is doing so with only about three-quarters as many workers as it employed a decade ago.
Jon and Carie Hallford pleaded guilty to corpse abuse after dozens of decaying bodies were found at their funeral home.
Experts worry the unusual move, driven by vaccine misinformation, could fuel further efforts to interfere with immunizations.
The state’s changing electorate and America’s polarized politics have turned Montana’s Senate race into the most consequential of the year.
Nearly a month into a union walkout, the aerospace giant withdrew its latest contract offer, and the two sides exchanged blame over the breakdown.
The justice talks about everything from his indictment of the regulatory state to the rights of Native Americans.
This documentary chronicles the reboot and reopening in Las Vegas of the acrobatic show “O,” which shutdown during the pandemic.
Over the past decade, many more schools started to offer free meals to all children, regardless of family income.
The footprint of gun violence in the U.S. has expanded, as shootings worsened in already suffering neighborhoods and killings spread to new places during the pandemic years.
Officials are moving to increase enforcement and change laws in response to the rise in counterfeit or expired plates, which exploded during the pandemic.
Originally charged after 190 decomposing bodies were found at their Colorado funeral home, the couple now face federal charges that they fraudulently obtained $880,000 in relief funds.
A surge of new residents into Rocky Mountain states drove up home prices. The result was property tax increases of 40 percent or more for some of those already there.
Chastened by a series of economic downturns that punished the hospitality industry, state leaders are working to broaden the economy.
Two of the most cautious states have bypassed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by letting students and workers who have the virus but are asymptomatic avoid isolation.
Portland students have struggled with absenteeism since the pandemic,
Apoorva Mandavilli, a health and science reporter for The New York Times, traveled across the country to learn how educators are preparing for the next pandemic.
Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii sees lessons far beyond the islands in the disaster that has unfolded on Maui.
Gordon Hunter Petersen is accused of posing as a doctor and making at least $2 million selling a bogus Covid-19 cure.
Nevada has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent as officials insist the economy must move away from its focus on gambling.
When her husband was diagnosed with lung cancer, the author was haunted by a long-ago loss — one she’d already written about.
Rollbacks on child labor protections are happening amid a surge of child labor violations.
The fatalities, occurring disproportionately among Native American and Black women, were linked not just to medical complications but also to homicides and accidents.
Dr. Michael Kirk Moore and three of his associates were indicted this month in a scheme that federal prosecutors said lasted from May 2021 to September 2022.
What seemed like a transitory step to avoid infection has become a major force driving the future direction of urban America.
Driven by Covid chaos, online disinformation and a YouTube guru, two Americans went looking for solace on a sailboat in the middle of the ocean. They found a different fate.
A team of reporters and photographers profiled 10 city centers across the country, all in varying stages of economic recovery and transformation.
We visited 10 cities across the country to see how the pandemic and its aftershocks have reshaped the American downtown.
Employers have been burned by a labor shortage. Will that make them act differently if the economy slows down?
The pandemic may have left some gaps in the urban fabric, but a neighborhood-by-neighborhood rundown of new restaurants and art events reveals that recovery is well underway.
I have deep doubts about the intellectual and social value of schooling.
Ships are carrying fewer passengers than they did before the pandemic, but in port towns where the bulk of the economy depends on cruise travel, business owners say they are “grateful for what we have.”
Denver has regained its prepandemic vibrancy, with a plethora of new restaurants and hotels, and the return of some old favorites.
La suspensión de actividades humanas por la covid ha sido una oportunidad para entender mejor cómo afectamos a otras especies del planeta.
Covid precautions created a global slowdown in human activity — and an opportunity to learn more about the complex ways we affect other species.
Masks will become optional in Hawaii’s schools when the new academic year starts on Aug. 1, as the state tries for “a more normal classroom experience this fall,” a state health official said.
As counties report elevated levels of transmission, national parks are once again requiring masks in gift shops, on tour buses and other indoor spaces.
“Covid-19 hasn’t disappeared as much as our patience for precautions has,” said one public health expert.