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When Father James Martin's dad was dying, a nun named Sister Janice Farnham went out of her way to visit him.

A mosquito tested positive for the West Nile virus found in a trap in the neighborhood of Winnetka, according to officials.

Shaking was felt as far away as Arcadia, with no reported damage.

A group of hackers claimed this week to have stolen 1.3 terabytes of Ticketmaster user data, including names, addresses and credit card information.

The peak of #VanLife may have ended just as COVID restrictions lifted, the movement's had a lasting impact.

Six planets will align in the sky, but you won’t be able to spot all of them with the naked eye.

The union representing 48,000 UC workers says members will walk off the job next week at UC San Diego, UC Irvine and UC San Diego.

Indian police accused Stan Swamy of terrorism. His supporters say he was framed and evidence planted on his computer. Some call it Narendra Modi's Watergate. Six years on, no one has resigned.

Jack Antonoff has seemingly cracked the code for producing hit albums, winning Grammys for his work with artists like Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift. But for his own writing, he leans into the unknown.

Girls in the U.S. are getting their first menstrual period about 6 months earlier on average than they did in the 1950s and ‘60s. And the number of girls starting their period before age nine has doubled. Researchers say parents can help prepare their kids for early puberty.

When an NPR reporter heard a startling loud metallic noise in her house, she was about to get an interesting lesson in animal behavior.

The same solar region that brought an outburst of night-time beauty in early May is coming back around. But things have changed, a space weather expert tells NPR.