The country’s largest public power provider is building a large-scale solar field on a closed coal ash site at its Shawnee Fossil Plant site in McCracken County. Tennessee Valley Authority officials say it’s the world’s first.

Transgender kids in nearly half of all U.S. states will not be able to access gender-affirming care after the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday upheld Tennessee’s ban on the care for minors. The court ruled 6-3 along conservative/liberal lines in the landmark decision.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Kentucky over a regulation that gives “an undocumented alien” in-state tuition if they graduated from a Kentucky high school.

Gov. JB Pritzker signed Illinois’ fiscal year 2026 budget into law Monday, taking shots at President Donald Trump’s budget management to defend hard choices state lawmakers were forced to make this year.

Tennessee faces one of the highest potential job losses in the nation under proposed federal legislation. President Trump's tax bill could put thousands of jobs in the electric vehicle manufacturing sector at risk.

Kentucky’s Republican statewide office holders have teamed up in the partisan struggle over who will choose the Executive Branch Ethics Commission, as both sides accuse the other of trying to “weaponize” ethics enforcement.

The Perseids meteor shower is the most popular one of the year. The meteors during this time are characterized by bright fireballs and long "wakes," the streak of light and color that follow behind.

A storm is coming and two siblings pull on their boots and head to the sea. The waves crash and the rain starts to fall, but they go on in this quintessential summer adventure story.

In the hills of southeastern Turkey lies a site so ancient, it's turning our understanding of civilization on its head and leading to conspiracy theories.

The Trump administration has given an ultimatum to immigrants without legal status: Leave voluntarily, or you'll be detained and deported. This has forced some immigrant families in the U.S. to grapple with very hard choices.

Plans for the bridge were first approved in the 1970s, but have stopped and started over the decades.

From inflation to recession, we who cover the economy and business at NPR get asked about tariffs all the time. Here are some of the most frequent questions — and what we answer.