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For National Poetry Month, young poet Emily Moore talks about how she got into poetry and why poetry is still relevant. She teaches English at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares and The Yale Review. In 2004, she received a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship.

Michael Kimball has been writing people's life stories in 600 words or less since April 2008. The writer, who lives in Baltimore, says he was inspired to start the postcard project on his blog by a friend who was curating a performance art festival. Kimball tells NPR the exercise has changed him.

The paralyzing virus had seemed on the verge of disappearing. But this year cases are being reported in 10 countries. The World Health Organization has responded with strict vaccination rules.

The star of the Fox drama was reportedly assaulted Tuesday in downtown Chicago. His attackers are said to have poured a chemical substance on him and wrapped a rope around his neck.

Manuel Cuevas of Manuel Couture crafted iconic outfits for Hank Williams and Gram Parsons, and turned Johnny Cash into "the Man in Black."

Gov. Mike Dunleavy outlined his agenda for his final year in office in his annual State of the State address. // Alaska lawmakers failed Thursday to override Dunleavy’s veto of a bill that backers said would've modernized Alaska’s corporate income tax system. // Alaska Congressman Nick Begich has a new challenger: Bill Hill, a Bristol Bay fisherman and retired teacher and school administrator. // A draft ordinance proposes a roughly 55% pay raise for the of Fairbanks mayor. // A semi-tractor trailer wrecked Monday on a stretch of the Dalton Highway north of Fairbanks and leaked 14,000 gallons of liquified natural gas // The Trump administration is reviewing the 8A business-contracting program that benefits Alaska Native corporations and tribes.

Each month, thousands of people across the country become U.S. citizens, and that new title comes with a new responsibility: the right to vote.

Vonn was seen clutching her left knee after crashing in a race in Switzerland on Friday, the last before the Winter Olympics. Her comeback after retiring in 2019 was one of Team USA's biggest stories.

As college tuition continues to rise, families are trying to figure out where their kids will go to college and how they'll pay for it.

The titan arum blooms again, this time at the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. Eager flower-watchers lined up to experience the plant's distinctive rotting-corpse-like odor.