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Workers are demanding higher wages and more staffing to ease their workload. The union says that cuts to staffing and guest services that many hotels made during the COVID-19 pandemic were never restored.

Dr. Kurt Papenfus, CEO of a small rural hospital in Colorado, was a memorable voice on NPR five years ago when he recounted his run in with "the 'rona beast." How is he five years later?

Thanks to new climate-controlled kennels acquired through a military surplus program, the Santa Fe Police Department is a step closer to rebooting its…

Food shortages have gotten so bad in Venezuela that delegates to this week's conference of the Non-Aligned Movement have been told to bring in their own…

Amy Goodman will not face criminal charges for her coverage of an oil pipeline protest in North Dakota last month. Prosecutors say they may still bring charges later.

In Missouri, plans to pare 90,000 people from the Medicaid rolls in 2005 have sparked a fierce debate over the morality of the move. Frank Morris of member station KCUR in Kansas City reports.

Rescue workers searched for survivors Monday following a massive landslide in central Venezuela, as the death toll rose past 30.

More than 200,000 marijuana-scented cards are being sent out to help educate the public on the smell of cannabis.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers screenwriter Robert Towne, who died this week. Towne won an Oscar for Chinatown, which is considered one of the best screenplays in American cinema.

Sophie and Colin Hortman remember their parents, Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman, as "the bright lights at the center of our lives." The couple was murdered in their home last weekend.