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Journalist Will Hunt is fascinated with the world below us: "Every manhole, every doorway, every stairway going down into the dark [feels] like a potential portal into this like separate world."

The future home of the Prairie Cities Soccer League once again is up in the air.

After the bust of the Great Recession, construction cranes once again tower over Miami. The transformation masks a difficult reality: This flashy city also remains one of the nation's poorest.

Another 10,100 are reported missing from flooding caused by Mediterranean storm Daniel, the Libyan Red Crescent says.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Xay Khamsyvoravong, the Democratic mayor of Newport, about issues facing his city this election year. He's in Washington for the U.S. Conference of Mayors Winter Meeting.

A powerful earthquake struck Christchurch, one of New Zealand's biggest cities, Tuesday at the height of a busy workday, toppling tall buildings and churches, crushing buses and killing at least 75 people in one of the country's worst natural disasters.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with professor Michelle Phelps of the University of Minnesota, about Minneapolis voters striking down an amendment to replace the city's police department.

Bloomington Mayor Dan Brady said the summer is marking progress on more than $315 million in public and private investment projects.

Eagle Pass, Texas, is caught in the middle of a fight between state and federal power over who controls the southern border. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is now vowing to expand his border operations.

Baltimore's crime rate dropped dramatically in the past year. NPR's Michel Martin asks Thomas Abt, a criminology professor at the University of Maryland, what Baltimore did right.