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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with civil engineering professor Brett Sanders about what's needed in terms of infrastructure planning to make communities more resilient to serious floods and storms.

The company says it hopes to help Black and Latino borrowers buy houses and build wealth with its new pilot program. Experts say it's a start, but doesn't go far enough.

For his Eagle Scout project, teenager Dominique Claseman built a veterans memorial in Olivia, Minnesota. With help from his community, he raised more than $77,000 to complete it.

The vast destruction of the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria is becoming clearer with each day. The scene in one flattened city that has a population over a million gives a glimpse at the scale.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Turkey correspondent for The Economist, Piotr Zalewski, about the political implications in the aftermath of the earthquake there.

A helicopter crash near Kyiv killed more than a dozen people, including the country's interior minister.

Low-income people are often shut out of a way wealth is built: real estate. There's a chance for poorer people to invest in their communities. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on March 5, 2023.)

The group is suing the Department of Veterans Affairs for failing to build affordable housing. The suit claims the VA hasn't lived up to a 2011 agreement to house veterans.

Bradley Somer's new novel follows (literally) Ian the goldfish, who's catching glimpses of life and love in the apartments he passes as his bowl plummets from a 27th-floor balcony.

Two wireless phone companies, Sprint Nextel and Clearwire, have come together to place a huge bet on a wireless technology called WiMax. WiMax would provide full Internet access for cell phones and laptops at speeds much faster than what's available today.