NATIONAL NEWS

The water levels at the Great Salt Lake have hit a historic low, a grim milestone for the largest natural lake west of the Mississippi River.

As the drought worsens across the West, cattle ranchers are among those feeling the pain.

A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that 54% of Americans judge the economy to be in poor shape.

California’s largest wildfire merged with a smaller blaze and destroyed homes in remote areas with limited access for firefighters.

Washington state is embarking on a massive experiment in police reform and accountability following the racial justice protests that erupted after George Floyd’s murder last year, with nearly a dozen laws that took effect Sunday.

Baby salmon are dying by the thousands in one California river and an entire run of endangered salmon could be wiped out in another.

What happens when your Olympics COVID test was taken 39 minutes early.

Some U.S. parents say they're planning to continue to homeschool their children, even as schools resume in-person classes.

Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority education in math, has died.

A strip club that once beckoned customers off a busy highway leading into Alaska's largest city is now a church offering salvation instead of temptation.

A wildfire raging in rugged terrain in Northern California has destroyed multiple homes as the state’s largest fire intensifies and numerous other blazes batter the U.S. West.

Jackie Mason, a rabbi-turned-jokester whose feisty brand of standup comedy got laughs from nightclubs in the Catskills to West Coast talk shows and Broadway stages, has died.

The family of entertainer James Brown has reached a settlement ending a 15-year battle over the late singer’s estate.

The Justice Department says it has decided not to open a civil rights investigation into government-run nursing homes in New York over their COVID-19 response.

The chair of former President Donald Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee has been ordered released on $250 million bail to face charges he secretly worked as an agent for the United Arab Emirates to influence Trump’s foreign policy.

Tens of thousands of young immigrants in the U.S. without legal status are in limbo once again after a court ruling last week declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program illegal.

Firefighters are trying to become smarter in how they prepare for the drought- and wind-driven wildfires that have become more dangerous across the American West in recent years.

Behind the statistics and the political blame game over rising gun violence are the victims.

Vaccinations are beginning to rise in some states where COVID-19 cases are soaring.

Ikey Hedaya is still waiting for closure almost a month after the Surfside condo collapse.

Sulfur-crested cockatoos in Sydney have learned to open trash bins — and the technique is catching on like a hot dance move.

New York Times opinion columnist Gail Collins, Associated Press Editor at Large John Daniszewski and journalist Katherine Boo have been elected as co-chairs of the Pulitzer Prize Board.

The Biden administration has unveiled new sanctions against a Cuban official and government entity it says was involved in human rights abuses during a government crackdown on protests on the island earlier this month.

More than 150 boarding schools for Indigenous children in the United States were operated by religious groups between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries — and churches are now reckoning with their traumatic legacy.