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For the first time since the pandemic began, the U.S. Education Department will begin tracking where schools have reopened and just how unequal the access to learning has been.

President Biden wants schools to reopen quickly. But there are questions about whether teachers should first be vaccinated. The CDC will provide more guidance next week.

The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has topped 450,000, but the infection rate has slowed slightly as roughly 28 million people have received at least one dose of a vaccine.

Employees at a Springfield memory care facility say they’re going on strike, after management refused to recognize their union.In a series of…

The four-panel conduct committee voted unanimously to expel Hernandez, a move that has rarely — if ever — been taken before in Oregon’s history. The resolution will now go to the full House for a vote, where it will require 40 members or two-thirds of the 60-member body to approve.

The Oregon Health Authority says the rate of new HIV diagnoses (2008-2017) among Black Oregonians is nearly five times that of whites. To confront this…

As Oregon ramps up vaccine distribution, the state's death toll continues to climb.

Not everyone gets tested. A new model estimates how many infections are missed because of this and how many people are actively shedding the virus. The results lend urgency to the vaccine race.

As the U.S. approaches nearly 500,000 deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic, NPR is putting together a tribute to remember people we've lost and the music that meant the most to them.

Roughly 225,000 people who voted in January runoff elections didn't vote in November. A disproportionate number of them were people of color, a sign of where Democrats' political future lies.