Nikki Crowley is an assistant professor of biology, biomedical engineering and pharmacology at Penn State University. She is ...

A commentary author writes how that one to two drinks per day can lead to increases in the likelihood of several types of ...

Bills about the alcohol-cancer link and youth vaping are up for lawmakers' consideration after versions ran into late trouble ...

Kylie Mohr is a correspondent for High Country News writing from Montana.

was a banner year for research on wildfire smoke and its impact on health, from brain functioning to fertility.

Emily Wakild is the Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for the Environment and Public Lands at Boise State University in Idaho. She is a historian of social and ecological change in Latin American and the ...

The Department of the Interior was created in 1849 as the United States was rapidly expanding and acquiring territory. It ...

As legislatures convene in the coming weeks, many lawmakers are focusing on a key criminal justice issue for prisons and ...

A pension bill that died in the House last year has been resubmitted and is one of 76 filed in advance of the session so far.

Draft recommendations include boosted marketing, development of new seafood products and more support for workers, among ...

Rural schools, mostly in Southeast Alaska, are facing a major funding shortfall this year after the U.S. House of Representatives failed to reauthorize a bill aimed at funding communities alongside ...