After a valuable de Kooning was discovered behind a bedroom door, a true crime fan wondered: Is that all the thieves stole?
One or more foxes have stolen at least 32 shoes, according to park officials, who warned campers to guard their belongings.
The Alaska lawmaker was given a copy when first appointed to the Senate in 2002 and it’s still on her bedside table. “Far From Home” is her new memoir.
Gov. Tina Kotek of Oregon issued an emergency declaration on Wednesday as the Cram fire threatened about 430 structures, including nearly 300 homes.
Monitor warnings and earthquake aftershocks.
The Dragon Bravo blaze destroyed the historic Grand Canyon Lodge and dozens of other buildings used for summer tourism on the Arizona-Utah border.
FEMA announced in April that it was ending the funding to eliminate “waste, fraud and abuse.” The program saved taxpayers more than $150 billion over 20 years, the plaintiffs said.
As a 12-year-old girl on a tube drifted away in a reservoir, her brother-in-law jumped in to save her. She survived.
Gibson, importante exponente del “spoken word”, insistía en que la poesía, especialmente cuando se leía en voz alta al público, era un acto político.
July’s hot temperatures and moist air are the perfect ingredients for rain.
Colorado led the country in bank robberies, per capita, for three years starting in 2021. Law enforcement officials found innovative ways to crack the crime wave.
A Victorian in New Canaan, a contemporary house in Cave Creek and a Colonial Revival in Boise
Find out what it would look like to fully celebrate the wildly personal beauty of your garden “dialed to the max.”
The Las Vegas Aces standout, one of the W.N.B.A.’s top players, shares her tips for places to eat, drink and chill — both on and off the Strip.
A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political act.
The 51-year-old faces life in prison without parole for killing his father-in-law and gravely wounding his mother-in-law in execution-style shootings in 2021.
Get live results and maps from the 2025 Arizona special primary election.
The Cram wildfire grew rapidly over the weekend, threatening small communities and ranch land.
For years, Republican and Democratic administrations have dispatched civilian Pentagon officials and military commanders to the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.
Gov. Katie Hobbs questioned why the U.S. government decided to manage the Dragon Bravo fire, which started with a lightning strike, as a “controlled burn” during the height of the summer.
For 20 years, Dr. Purva Merchant has been answering letters from gaptoothed children and their parents — roughly 6,000 in all. “Happy growing up,” she typically replies.
German soldiers never stepped foot on the speck of land at the far end of the Aleutian Islands during World War II, but the name persisted.
A four-day test in the Alaska wilderness shows how far the U.S. military and American drone companies lag behind China in the technology.
Access via the North Rim, a lesser-used gateway to the national park, was closed as the White Sage fire continued to burn on Saturday.
The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.
The fossil, estimated to be about 70 million years old, was found during a drilling project.
The man fell from a steep, off-trail climbing route on the west side of Mount Gould, the authorities said.
Emergency personnel found the 43-year-old physical therapist dead inside the chamber at his Arizona health clinic, which offered oxygen therapy.
The heat is so clean and alive.
President Trump wants America to produce more of the much-needed mineral, but a 50 percent tariff could undermine his aim of a manufacturing renaissance.
The investment firm Andreessen Horowitz is moving its incorporation out of the First State, and urging others to follow, as backlash to its courts grows.
The most vulnerable mothers have the most to lose from Medicaid cuts.
An Italianate home in Kingston, a condo in Chicago and an expanded 1925 house in Salem.
Heavy rain and severe flooding hit Ruidoso, N.M., on Tuesday, prompting rescues.
Rescue efforts were underway after heavy rainfall pounded Ruidoso, N.M.
The latest networks of volunteers are hyperlocal and focused on responding to federal actions. As the crackdown becomes more intense, so could confrontations.
El número de cabezas de ganado vacuno ha descendido un 13 por ciento desde 2019, y el inventario general de reses disponibles es el más bajo desde 1952.
Smaller cattle herds and a decade of headwinds for the industry are expected to push up the cost of burgers and steaks for several years.
The woman, a doctor from Kentucky, was last spotted on security footage while leaving a building at the top stop of a tramway in Juneau.
The New York Times interviewed 16 U.S. mayors about President Trump, immigration and their lives outside City Hall.
Adelita Grijalva remains heavily favored to win the House seat of her late father, Raúl Grijalva, but youthful challengers and tired voters are asking why change is so hard for Democrats.
Teresa Peroni was last seen on July 4, 1983, in Selma, Ore. DNA testing confirmed that a skull found in 1997 was hers.
Trump’s claim that Venezuelan criminals took over Aurora, Colorado, became a rationale for his immigration crackdown. What really happened there?
Here are six volunteers who make a difference at National Parks and other federal lands, from an 8-year-old who does the weeding to a retired rear admiral who keeps people — and animals — safe.
To secure a key vote, an “absurd policy” was created that winds up encouraging states to make more mistakes.
Such a path could drastically raise the stakes for federal investigations of state or county officials, bringing the department and the threat of criminalization into the election system.
Dr. Katherine Ramsland was Bryan Kohberger’s professor before he moved to the Pacific Northwest, where he is expected to plead guilty to killing four University of Idaho students.
After two and a half years of legal wrangling, prosecutors and lawyers for the defendant, Bryan Kohberger, reached a deal just weeks before his trial was set to begin.
Bryan Kohberger, now 30, was charged in the 2022 murders that shook the University of Idaho. In exchange, he would avoid a possible death penalty.
The Alaska Republican, a frequent critic of the president who is often a swing vote, acknowledged the bill would harm Americans but backed it after winning carve outs for her state.
A fine dining rebrand and a laid back Detroit pizza joint join the list.
Bryan Kohberger, a former criminology student, was set to go on trial this summer in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students.
The authorities believe that the suspect, who was found dead on Canfield Mountain, set a brush fire and shot at the firefighters who responded, killing two.
The death of Karen Diamond, 82, has turned the attack in Boulder, Colo., on marchers for Israeli hostages into a possible death-penalty case.
Los bomberos respondían a un incendio en el norte de Idaho cuando se produjo el tiroteo, dijo el sheriff local. El cuerpo de un sospechoso fue recuperado el domingo por la noche.
The authorities said a gunman started a wildfire to lure firefighters, then ambushed them in a sniper attack.
Colorful boardwalks? Art classes? Stunning underwater parks? Great beaches can offer more than crystalline waters and soothing sand.
The attack happened in the Canfield Mountain area. Voices could be heard pleading for help in recordings of radio channels used by first responders.
Firefighters were responding to a fire near Coeur d’Alene when the shooting happened, a sheriff said. It was unclear how many might be wounded.
For more than a century, baseball teams in Fairbanks have played at midnight on the summer solstice, illuminated only by the sun.
His liberal politics, inspired by the safety nets of the New Deal, were shaped in working-class mining country.
New provisions that benefit whaling captains and rural hospitals appear to be aimed at winning over Senator Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska Republican who had said the bill would hurt her state.
States have spent at least $25 billion to attract movie and TV filming. Texas and New York are increasing their subsidies, while Georgia and Louisiana are broadening their programs.
Tanner Martin documentó su lucha contra el cáncer de colon para cientos de miles de seguidores. Anunció su muerte en un video que ha sido visto millones de veces.
After their wedding was spotted on a webcam, pictures of Jamie and Chris DeBruhl getting married at a mountain resort in Montana spread quickly online.
Congress’s one-size-fits-all bill doesn’t take into account the realities of life in Alaska.
Developments with a skybridge or hallway connecting two homes have been popping up all over Seattle in recent years.
Judson Jones, The New York Times’s resident meteorologist, discussed this week’s stifling heat and how to prepare for the next temperature spike.
Tanner Martin has documented his fight against colon cancer for hundreds of thousands of followers. His death was announced in a recorded video.
After fixing up several homes over the years, a couple was ready to build ‘sweat equity’ in a Southwest-style house in New Mexico’s famed art haven.
The leading role the United States plays in liquefied natural gas traces its roots to a small Alaskan outpost that began shipping the fuel to Japan in 1969.
Nikiski in southern Alaska is waiting to see if backing from President Trump and a new developer will advance a decades-old initiative to export natural gas.
The plans for strips of land in Texas and Arizona are the latest step to militarize the boundary to stem an already dwindling number of migrant crossings.
Un ejecutivo de DoorDash celebraba el cumpleaños de su madre con familia y amigos cuando una tormenta sorpresa provocó olas en el lago.
Videos show smoke coming out of the right engine of an American Airlines passenger jet heading from Las Vegas to Charlotte, N.C. The plane turned around and landed safely after the crew reported an engine issue, the F.A.A. said.
The crew of an American Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Charlotte, N.C., reported an engine issue.
Three weeks after a fire broke out on the ship off the coast of Alaska, the Morning Midas sank, along with thousands of cars on board.
Democratic leaders have a curiosity problem, and it’s losing them elections.
Eight people died when a surprise storm caused dangerous waves on the lake along the California-Nevada border, upending boats and tossing passengers into the frigid water.
Senator Mike Lee hoped to sell millions of acres of federal land through President Trump’s policy bill, in part to ease housing costs. The opposition was bipartisan, in Congress and the West.
Governments and U.S. states committed to climate action now need to persuade the oil industry to protect the world from climate chaos.
A large wave overturned a 27-foot-long boat on Saturday afternoon, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Two people remained missing.
The Forsyth fire in Utah threatened a small community in the state’s southwest corner. Farther west, the Conner fire burned rapidly near Lake Tahoe.
From the new to the classic, from the affordable to the exorbitant, here are six getaways where you can find some peace and quiet.
In their podcast, “Family Trips With the Meyers Brothers,” the comedians interview notable guests about memorable childhood holidays.
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.
The contract workers are resisting a plan to resume in-person work, citing health concerns and commuting costs.
People from around the world have been lingering on the border, awaiting the end of pandemic restrictions. Their fate remains one of the Biden administration’s biggest challenges on immigration.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
Domestic travel has returned faster than international. And some destinations like Las Vegas are rebounding more quickly than big cities like New York.
With inpatient psychiatric services in short supply, adolescents are spending days, even weeks, in hospital emergency departments awaiting the help they desperately need.