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.” ...

A small plane crashed near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Wednesday night after colliding with a military ...

An airplane collided with a helicopter while trying to land at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on 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.

Figure skaters and coaches returning from the national championships were aboard the American Airlines flight that collided ...

An American Airlines plane collided with a military helicopter crashing into the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport ...