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With uncommon delicacy and grace, the singer-songwriter spends her 10th album assessing her place in an increasingly unsteady world.

His name was Alvin Thomas. But nobody dared call him that. "Titanic" Thompson earned his nickname from a life spent gambling -- because Titanic could sink anybody.

Chaos surrounds cycling's Tour de France as three riders are dismissed from the race on charges of doping. One was the leading rider, Michael Rasmussen, a Dane. He had been under heavy suspicion for failing to report his whereabouts to drug authorities during pre-tour training.

To combat poor air quality in Connecticut schools legislators propose focusing on inspections and HVAC improvements.

In Connecticut, transportation accounts for over 40% of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.

The crust of this year's prize winning buttermilk pie may have been store bought. Fair officials are investigating.

Fewer young adults are buying homes today compared with a decade ago. The National Housing Conference's Lisa Sturtevant and NPR's Marilyn Geewax explain worries that it could harm the housing market.

In 2005, two Chicagoans made a generational classic and then sprinted in opposite directions, each daring the rest of hip-hop to follow them.

Once the stuff of high-end cuisine, mutton consumption tanked thanks to competition from the cattle industry and GIs fed up with rations. Fans say it's time to re-embrace this underappreciated meat.

Their physical and emotional health had withered in the pandemic year. But reentry into post-vaccination life made for tricky choices, too.