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When Hurricane Katrina swept into New Orleans, accurate information was often the rarest commodity. As water inundated New Orleans, the city's dominant paper, The Times-Picayune, found its true calling.

In Boston on Tuesday, residents and business owners on Boylston Street were allowed to return for the first time since last week's bombings. They returned to stores with windows blown out, restaurants with the remains of uneaten meals still sitting on tables and barricades to keep the public away from the scene.

Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd met some rainwater harvesters in Tucson to see if their methods might help the West survive a megadrought.

Some community members describe the cruiser as tone deaf and ill-timed, given tensions with police around the country. Miami police said they stand by the decision to unveil the special design.

The Beat Generation icon and owner of City Lights bookstore and press in San Francisco is still writing. He celebrates his centennial March 24, and his new autobiographical novel is out now.

The Kansas City Chiefs have won their second Super Bowl in three years after defeating the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35. A last-minute field goal capped a thrilling come-from-behind victory.

Iyer looks back on almost five decades of travel and what that time has taught him about the nature of paradise.

More than 2,000 were also injured after the 6.8-magnitude earthquake devastated homes in villages across the Atlas Mountains, as well as historical sites inside Marrakech city.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, answered questions Tuesday from several members of a Senate panel at her confirmation hearing. At issue were her handling of the New Haven firefighters' case and previous statements about life experience and impartiality.

Ziauddin Yusefzai ignored the Taliban's death threats when they took over his city in Pakistan's Swat Valley. He marched against the militants and for as long as he could, kept running his school for girls. He is now celebrating because the Taliban is out of the city and his girls are returning to school.