Less than 40% of schools nationwide have a registered school nurse on staff. A veteran school nurse describes the challenges in hiring, training and retaining personnel.

This week on Get Out There, we're exploring D.C. while saving a few bucks.

The fencing is being put in place to protect the White House in the face of protests, the Secret Service says. The mayor of Washington, D.C., has criticized the increased federal security in the area.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Lesley Blume about her new book, Fallout, which explores how reporter John Hersey uncovered the effects of the atomic bomb after the U.S. dropped it on Hiroshima.

Services for people with mental disabilities and substance abuse problems in Arlington are about to say goodbye to a neighborhood center that has offered services for the last four years.

For years, powdered cocaine was D.C.'s drug of choice, but when crack hit the streets, the city was plagued by levels of addiction and violence that caught residents, police and politicians by ...

Of all new HIV diagnoses in D.C., a city filled with public policy and health think tanks 41 percent are with young people -- the highest rate in the past 10 years. City advocates say more outreach to ...

Beverly Smith created the nonprofit Momma’s Safe Haven to give youth a place to learn, play, and heal. “It’s okay to laugh, it’s okay to have fun. This is a safe space,” Smith says. “I think our youth ...

While tens of thousands of KKK members marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in 1925, the marches and rallies held in D.C. since then have seen far more counter-protesters than actual white supremacists.

Rising sea level. Hotter days. Unpredictable weather — how climate change is playing out in the region.

A recent survey of D.C.-area restaurants show there is a pretty pessimistic mood among owners.

Illegal cannabis shops have been caught selling DMT, mushrooms and other drugs.