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The situation in New Orleans continues to deteriorate, with widespread flooding and looting. The evacuation of thousands of people from the Superdome in the city was halted early Thursday when shots were fired at military helicopters. There are also reports of armed carjackings.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is claiming he's successfully liberated the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, even though several thousand Ukrainian troops and civilians remain in hiding at a steel mill on the city's waterfront.

The notion that beauty could inspire civic virtue informed the construction of the New York subway a century ago. Now a city program spreads beautiful mosaics, sculptures and other hidden treasures underground. NPR's Margot Adler reports.

VenuWorks may manage the U.S. Cellular Coliseum for up to 5 years if a contract is approved by Bloomington Aldermen Monday. The company entered into a 90…

The city of Pekin is closing off access to the riverfront after people continued to gather there in violation of the governor's stay-at-home order.

Ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse in the city's port caused the blast.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin says businesses in some parts of the city will reopen this weekend, and residents of the Algiers neighborhood will be welcomed back next week. Announcing the gradual return, officials also warned of remaining health threats.

The subway transformed the nation's largest city, and how the world viewed it. Over the decades, pop culture depictions of the subway have reflected the ever-changing image of the Big Apple. NPR's Robert Smith reports.

Seventy years ago this Sunday, people in New York City looked up in amazement to see the ill-fated zeppelin Hindenburg make its way to an airfield in New Jersey. A poem offers a boy's-eye view of that sight.

Sixteen incarcerated people have died in the custody of New York City's jails this year, and two more died just after they were released. That's a record since 2013.