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"We have to sustain the commitment — and, frankly, the accountability," Ward 7 council member Mollie Ward said about Bloomington's pledge to prioritize accessibility as work on revitalizing downtown Bloomington via the adopted streetscape plan unfolds.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks St. Paul, Minn., city council members Mitra Jalali and Saura Jost about their council. All members are women, under 40 years old, and six of the seven are people of color.

As Israel intensified attacks in the Lebanese city of Baalbek, residents fled to an ancient Roman temple, hoping the site’s UNESCO status might save them.

Writer Neil King wanted to take a nice long walk and see some history, so he decided to walk from his home in Washington, D.C., to New York City. We check in on how the trip is going so far.

In urban environments, heat gets absorbed and released by the pavement, buildings and other objects. A new study says that an underestimated factor in urban warming is heat radiating from parked cars.

Missouri native Krystle Warren digs into American history on her new album Three The Hard Way. She talks about what it's like to observe the U.S. from France, her home for the past nine years.

The Trump administration's stance on immigration policy is being blamed for holding up federal policing money that pays for things such as training, equipment and personnel.

Staring at a projected $3 million deficit next year, Bloomington aldermen will meet Saturday for a daylong retreat focused largely on right-sizing the…

Birmingham, Ala., is under a shelter-in-place order, as officials take a more aggressive approach than state leaders have, in order to curtail spread of the coronavirus.

The city of Peoria and U.S. EPA have finally reached a tentative agreement to settle federal allegations that the city's combined sewer overflow...