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Navy Capt. Brett Crozier, commanding officer of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, was relieved of command Wednesday after his criticism of the handling of a coronavirus outbreak aboard his ship went public.

The non-profit group that runs the hospital and large medical clinic in Fairbanks is reporting huge financial losses from the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only…

German health authorities claim great success in testing and contact tracing, even pinpointing the country's first coronavirus transmission to the passing of a salt shaker in a Bavarian mess hall.

ICU nurse Jennifer Binstock, head of the American Psychiatry Association Dr. Bruce Schwartz and NPR's Yuki Noguchi discuss the mental toll the COVID-19 crisis is taking on health care workers.

Last week another pilgrim to the bus near Healy where Chris McCandless died in 1992 had to be rescued. McCandless is figured in Jon Krakauer’s non-fiction…

Nick Hakim premieres new music from a dark corner of his bedroom in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

The National Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma is closed during the pandemic. NPR's David Greene talks to Tim Tiller, who's in charged of the museum's security, and is manning the museum's Twitter feed.

Actual crimes are scary and disturbing, but critic John Powers finds crime stories comforting. He recommends two shows he's been binge-watching during the pandemic.

Mark O'Connell visited doomsday communities while researching his book, Notes from an Apocalypse. He says he's not interested in being part of the sheltered elite: "I think I'd rather be dead."

About 30 proposals for inventions to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic have come in to University of Alaska Fairbanks. Last month, as the disease came to…