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About 15 million properties in the U.S. are prone to flooding, but patchwork and ineffective disclosure laws mean most people get little to no information about flood risk before they move.

An unlikely leader rises in a poor, rural Southern school district.

The state parole board freed 185 prisoners during Landry’s tenure, compared with 858 in the two years before he took office. Hundreds who would have been released under previous governors remain incarcerated with little chance of earning parole.

For decades, government scientists have toiled away trying to make nuclear fusion work. Will commercial companies sprint to the finish?

With a Democratic Senate and a GOP House, some census advocates are looking past the new Congress for other ways to help protect the 2030 census and other head counts from political interference.

Lacks, a Black mother in Baltimore, died from cervical cancer in 1951. Her tumor cells, taken without her knowledge, became the first successful "immortal" cell line, and used for medical research.

Nurses have been telling lawmakers that hospital understaffing is putting patient lives at risk. They want Michigan to follow California and Oregon and institute mandatory staffing ratios.

The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world: Sixty percent of the 700 to 900 deaths each year are preventable, including that of neonatal nurse Lauren Bloomstein.

It's time to start casting ballots, Louisiana.Early, in-person voting in Louisiana in 2020 runs from Oct. 16 through Oct. 27. Sites will be open from 8…

Officials want to roll back changes made for therapeutic ‘Missouri model’ of care