The Social Security Administration reassigned some field office employees in an effort to bring down lengthy phone wait times ...

Western Kansas is the place for a quiet, rural lifestyle. But with that comes shortages when you need to see a doctor. Many ...

It was 35 years ago this month that the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law. Across the U.S., it's being ...

The earth doesn't rotate exactly on schedule. Scientists believe that today is going to be around a millisecond short of a ...

More than 5.2 million aboveground swimming pools sold across the U.S. and Canada over the last two decades are being recalled ...

I'd like to nominate The Southern Book Club's Guide to Vampire Slaying by Grady Hendrix for HPPR's Bookbytes. I belong to a bookclub in Stanton County KS where life is slow enough that I look forward ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Tracy Slater, author of "Together in Manzanar," which tells the true story of a family of mixed heritage sent to a Japanese internment camp during World War II.

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A Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft crashed into a school campus in the capital, Dhaka, shortly after takeoff on Monday, ...

In Nothing More of This Land, Aquinnah Wampanoag writer Joseph Lee takes readers past the celebrity summer scene and into the ...

It costs nearly $100 million a year to maintain global stockpiles of vaccines for Ebola, cholera, meningitis and yellow fever ...

Waivers override certain Medicaid rules so that people with disabilities, chronic illness or injury can receive care at home instead of in a care facility. States choose which waiver programs to ...