PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A new interactive map made by Multnomah County is helping to identify areas most at risk during heat events. According to Multnomah County officials, the Heat Vulnerability ...

People in many parts of the United States possess few chances for the robust community engagement that underpins healthy democracies, according to a new report that for the first time maps civic ...

“More than 200 million Americans are under extreme heat alerts” not a prediction for the future, that’s the reality enveloping the central and eastern United States this week, as per the National ...

The temperature on any given summer day may be in the 80s or 90s. So why does it feel so much hotter and oppressive at times? That's the heat index doing its thing. Here's how it works: What is the ...

The extreme heat that has baked much of the central United States this week is shifting east ahead of the weekend, forecasters said. More than 100 million Americans are under heat alerts that will ...

Federal officials on Monday unveiled a set of tools aimed at helping protect people in the United States from the dangers of extreme heat. The resources, developed jointly by the National Oceanic and ...

Of the thousands of people living on Portland's streets, nearly 15 hundred are youth without adult care or supervision. According to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, nearly 70% are ...

The research team worked with big data and computational tools to develop a more precise map of civic opportunity than previously possible. People in many parts of the United States possess few ...