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Amazon opened its new brick-and-mortar convenience store to the public on Monday in Seattle. There are no carts or cashiers, and it's BYOB situation, meaning customers have to provide their own bags.

Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, caucuses with Democrats. He shares his reactions to the deal temporarily ending the government shutdown with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.

The "Our Schools Now" initiative looks very likely to gather enough signatures to be on the November ballot. If it passes, it would increase school…

The three-day partial government shutdown is coming to an end. Senate Democrats agreed to a stopgap funding measure after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell committed to a vote on immigration legislation.

Small police departments struggling with high crime and low budgets tend to pay fast-food wages, may employ officers with troubled pasts and can miss out on opportunities to learn from mistakes.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a starring role in this year's Sundance. She is the subject of "RBG," a documentary in the film festival.…

Independent films often deal with road trips, but the documentary Roll With Me puts a difference spin on the genre, as a man rolls his wheelchair across…

There was a misunderstanding at City Hall regarding the process of appointing a new city council member. City Council thought they could deliberate in…

A new NPR/Marist poll shows that more than half of contract workers don't get employee benefits. "We really don't have much of a social safety net, and that's terrifying," freelancer Matt Nelson says.

Last summer, the Oregon Legislature passed a package of state taxes to cover Medicaid's expanding rolls. But Oregon voters Tuesday could throw a wrench in that plan by refusing some of the taxes.