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They're not locusts. They don't eat crops, don't sting babies to death, don't even harm fruit. Yes, they make loud, screechy noises, but if you were a female cicada, you'd find the love songs ... um ... lovely. Here come the cicadas!

NPR's Neal Conan reads from listener comments on previous show topics, including the epidemiology of gun violence, what it means to be a 'Southerner' and going off the map.

Our two small granddaughters visited us this weekend. For me, their lives have been the most compelling reason to do something about global warming, to…

Meteorologist Garett Argianas delivers the evening forecast for Tuesday, April 2, 2013.

For Republicans along South Carolina's coastal low country, Tuesday is a chance to decide whether they want former governor and famously non-Appalachian Trail hiker Mark Sanford to represent them in Congress.

Before the American Revolution, a huge tree has been standing in central Missouri, growing to 90 feet tall. The beloved bur oak, which everybody calls "The Big Tree," has survived all kinds of punishments during 350 years on the prairie. But last year's record drought was rough on the tree, causing it to wilt and alarming two locals who nursed it back to health.

New York state Senator Malcolm Smith, a former Senate Majority Leader, has been arrested and indicted in a far reaching bribery and corruption scandal.The…

New York City Department of Environmental Protection officials opened the Gilboa Dam site to government leaders, the media and the public Tuesday to get a…

The daughter of the Democratic political legend says she will run for Congress next year, taking on incumbent Republican Steve Southerland in a district that includes Tallahassee and part of Florida's panhandle

Critics argue that wind turbine syndrome is a fictional malady perpetuated by people angered by the turbines in their communities. Now experts are weighing in on whether it could be real.