Public Safety

Some people lost everything in the floods that devastated eastern Kentucky, and many didn't have much to begin with.

A wave of “assassinations’’ led to 39 gun fatalities in Delaware’s largest city last year. This year, however, the opposite has been true.

Gov. Andy Beshear said Saturday that four children are among the dead.

The suspect fired shots at the responding officers and a barricade was declared.

WHYY student interns team up with P.O.C., a partner in the News and Information Community Exchange, to survey residents about their feelings on the National Guard.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed the bill forward Friday, but the legislation is likely to go nowhere in the Senate.

The monthly prayer walk organized by the 14th District police took on extra meaning this week after a 7-year-old was caught in the crossfire of a shooting.

Fire officials say faulty electrical wiring led to a smoky two-alarm blaze that shut down South Street.

Search and rescue teams backed by the National Guard searched Friday for people missing in record floods that wiped out entire communities in Appalachia.

After two years working in the community, the Chinese Immigrant Family Wellness Initiative is continuing to grow.

An effort to help Delaware towns improve lighting as a way to fight crime is getting a $2.5 million boost in funding from the American Rescue Plan.

Health leaders confirm new heat related-deaths.

Area first responders and the military will join forces this week to run a disaster preparedness exercise in South Philadelphia.

Thousands of people were ordered to evacuate a fast-moving wildfire near Yosemite National Park that exploded in size into one of California's largest wildfires of the year.

“They should put a fence around the park and give *us* the keys,” said one fourth grader.