Measurable rainfall in the first week of June has only been recorded 21 times since 1896, according to weather records. The rain would be welcome after a winter of below-normal precipitation.
Rescuers found Kell Morris with hypothermia, wavering in and out of consciousness, face first in a creek as his wife held his head out of the water.
Cities and counties that have strongly backed the administration’s immigration crackdown nonetheless found themselves on a lengthy list of locales being warned to change their policies.
Emergency workers responded after a tractor-trailer carrying 70,000 pounds of pollinator hives rolled over on a country road near Lynden, Wash., releasing an eye-popping number of honeybees.
A 61-year-old man was airlifted to safety after he survived a 700-pound boulder crashing into him on a hike in Alaska.
Several emergency responders were stung after the truck flipped in a sparsely populated area of Whatcom County. Efforts were underway to recapture the bees.
Where to find the best small inns, chile relleno and secluded hot springs in and around Taos.
Across the country, you’ll find Shakespeare in amphitheaters, exciting new works on intimate stages and many regional repertories in bucolic settings.
Teak Ty Brockbank, 46, of Colorado, blamed his actions on exposure to far-right political rhetoric.
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. commuted dozens of men’s sentences to life without parole, but the Trump administration has sought to move the inmates to a notoriously tough prison.
A Streamline Moderne home in Denver, a condo in a former cotton mill in Atlanta and a bungalow in St. Petersburg
Cast members from the original 2002 animated film and the live-action remake explain what lured them to — or back to — “Lilo & Stitch.”
Celestial Recycling is helping answer that very question for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Has anything really changed at drive-in theaters across the country? A photographer based in Bozeman, Mont., visited a few to find out.
The Justice Department said that it would abandon efforts to overhaul local policing in Minneapolis and other cities with histories of civil rights violations.
With popular destinations like Yellowstone and Zion hit hard by staffing cuts, nearby state parks offer beauty and majesty with far less uncertainty.
The Portland area is a hot spot for vegans, who have the most environmentally friendly diets. It has also yielded a game-changing dessert.
After a New York Times report found five deaths and several injuries among prisoners who walked along a remote highway after their release, county officials are weighing a range of safety options.
The Trump administration’s relocation of federal offices outside of Washington corrupts what could be a valuable reform.
Tornadoes reported in Bennett, Colo., damaged buildings as forecasters said a severe storm system would roll through parts of the Midwest.
Members of Gov. Katie Hobbs’s own party are worried about her re-election chances in a state that flipped to President Trump. The state party is in turmoil, too.
El Pentágono ha enviado miles de soldados, aviones espía e incluso dos buques de guerra para vigilar la tierra y las costas.
Controllers switched frequencies and planes were “safely separated,” officials said. The 90-second outage on Monday followed communications problems at Newark’s airport.
The Pentagon has sent thousands of troops, spy planes and even two warships to surveil the land and coasts.
A newly designated “military installation” that stretches the length of the frontier in New Mexico has made trespassing a novel criminal charge at the border, bringing turmoil to the state. A judge says migrants couldn’t know they were trespassing.
A writer drove from Chicago to L.A. to see what it truly means to belong to a place.
An F.B.I. investigation homed in on two powerful men in suburban New York. Behind it were allegations by a woman who said her brother had abused and controlled her for 45 years.
The Trump administration has declared litigation to hold oil companies responsible for climate change a threat to the American economy and has taken aggressive steps to fight it.
An interest in alternative sports brought a reporter from Berlin to Reno to witness an unforgettable competition.
A Victorian-era house in Manchester, a Spanish-style home in Tucson and a rowhouse in Philadelphia.
The Trump crackdown has reached the volcanic Island of Hawaii, where immigrants, some of them undocumented, are crucial to cultivating the rare coffee.
Suggestions for last-minute trips geared toward four very different kinds of traveler.
A leaked version of the department’s five-year strategic planning document favors privatization and economic returns from the nation’s public lands.
An environmental review of the project, known as Velvet-Wood, would normally take roughly a year. The government says it will complete the process in two weeks.
The company, which serves airports in liberal cities on the coasts, has agreed to operate chartered flights for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Nearly every day in Santa Fe, N.M., people released from jail trudge along a dangerous highway to get back to town. Jails often fail to offer safe transport options for prisoners.
Medical aid in dying laws are flawed.
Not content to battle it out in the boardroom, crypto bros, tech executives and start-up founders have embraced an old-fashioned version of masculinity.
A lawyer for the plaintiffs said that they had “prevailed against all odds” but called the damage award “disappointing.”
A likeness of Christopher Pelkey, who was killed in a 2021 road rage episode, was created with artificial intelligence. It was part of a victim’s impact statement.
Perennially sunny and chile-obsessed, Santa Fe offers galleries, museums, theaters and miles of hiking trails.
Federal agents are rounding up criminal defendants and deporting them before trial. Local prosecutors say the disruptions make communities less safe.
A lawsuit led by Washington, Colorado and California accuses the Trump administration of unlawfully withholding funds for new charging stations.
A man was swept away by the flooding rains, the police said.
A heavy storm system soaked Las Vegas for days and brought hail about the size of a quarter to nearby Henderson, Nev.
About 10 years ago, Amanda Precourt turned her attention to buying art. She now sponsors shows and is opening an exhibition space in an old cookie factory.
The cities approved several new flags after Utah and Idaho passed laws barring unofficial flags from being displayed on government property.
Republican women know what they’re doing.
The four women said the Motown legend abused them multiple times while they worked cleaning his home. His wife, they said, created a hostile work environment.
The authorities said that the attack, which the seal survived, occurred on a cold evening in a cove along the Pacific Coast.
The White House has begun a new effort to sue individual states over their climate initiatives and to stop lawsuits against fossil fuel companies.
The bottomless-sushi restaurant is a frugal, flamboyant basic in this Nevada casino town. Can it survive in a time of rising prices?
A frequent visitor shares his favorite walks and restaurants on the Hawaiian island.
A fight broke out among people attending a concert at the venue, the police said.
The loss of the Great Salt Lake would be an environmental disaster with health and economic effects far beyond Utah’s borders. The state is taking action, but critics say it’s not doing enough.
Dozens of people forced to leave the Deschutes National Forest in Oregon set up camp nearby in different wooded areas.
The lawsuit, which names the governor and mayor as defendants, is the latest move by the White House to try to get local governments to cooperate more with its immigration agenda.
Derided by critics as the “Nasty Nine” and censured by the state party, a group of Republican state senators said they were simply advancing common-sense legislation and supporting the governor’s agenda.
As official research positions are lost to budget cuts, the work of citizen scientists to preserve federal forests is becoming more valuable.
The crash in eastern Idaho killed six people in a van who had been part of a tour group, as well as the driver of a pickup truck, the State Police said.
Small-town America depends on health care systems like mine, but I’m not sure we’ll be able to keep our doors open if Congress cuts Medicaid.
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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.
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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.