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Cleveland is trying to create a less car-centered city, against tough odds. But public transit and walkable neighborhoods can help solve two problems at once: climate change and fairness.

Five military horses got spooked during a training exercise, bolting and weaving a path of destruction across the city before being captured. Several people and horses are being treated for injuries.

Children in Baton Rouge, La., are back in class after a three-week interruption. But life is still upended: Many students are displaced and still living in shelters, and don't know where they'll go.

The children of migrant farm workers are some of the country's poorest, most undereducated and hardest to track down. Programs like one in southern Indiana are working to change that.

Almost a year since a young black man from west Baltimore died in police custody, trials of the officers charged in his case are set to begin. A citizen commission released its findings.

A group of school children in Kawasaki were waiting for a bus when a man allegedly stabbed more than a dozen people. The suspect is in custody, but the motive for the attack is unknown.

While the Freedom Rides of 1961 are an honored part of the Civil Rights movement, the response of Southern racists is less well-known. The Reverse Freedom Rides sent scores of African Americans north.

Nearly seven decades ago two Black women, bound together by military service, helped end discrimination on interstate buses. Their often overlooked story in civil rights history is getting attention.

Some local tech companies are landing big contracts with the City & County of Honolulu’s for transit work.Hali‘a and Greg Hester formed Ulu Hi-Tech last…

With the election just eight days away, Bob Dole and Bill Clinton are making campaign trips. The Republican nominee is doing a bus trip in electoral vote-rich California. President Clinton is in the Midwest. Today he is is taking credit for a bit of sunny economic news. He told a St. Louis crowd this morning that the country has the smallest budget deficit since 1981. He says that just proves that the economy is on the right track. Republicans credit the healthy economy to their fighting for spending controls. We have reports from both political camps; NPR's Elizabeth Arnold is with the Dole campaign, and Mara Liasson is with the Clinton campaign.