Severely ill and distressed patients are waiting three and a half days in emergency for mental health beds that don’t exist in a shocking escalation of the state’s psychiatrist workforce crisis.

Washington Post staff tried to separate what is happening from what is not, and to explain what may happen in the future.

In this month’s wind-driven wildfires in Southern California, evacuation alerts for some neighborhoods came long after homes ...

Officials said the plane went down in the river near Reagan Airport. The airport said emergency crews were responding to an “aircraft incident.” ...

Claus for the pediatrics ward at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana. She was at her Champaign home Tuesday. Patty Metzler ...

A separate U.S. program that provides contraceptives internationally spent $60 million worldwide in one year, but Gaza was ...

The Pekin Police Department said Thursday that a narcotics raid at a home in south Pekin was being falsely framed as an immigration raid on social media.

Three hospital staff were injured in what Nova Scotia’s health minister says was an armed assault by a patient Wednesday ...

Deputies from the Ontario County Sheriff’s Office and firefighters from the Canandaigua Fire Department responded to the ...

Dry conditions are causing three eastern Iowa counties to put burn bans into place. Fire departments in several other ...

An American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter collided Wednesday night near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.