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The blaze started during a musical performance, NPR's Frank Langfitt reports, after colored powder shot out from the stage over the audience — and ignited.

By Josh Jameshttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wuky/local-wuky-984625.mp3Lexington, KY – An area elementary school is being honored for…

As an alternative to drab office buildings, immigration services are holding some citizenship ceremonies on Park Service land, to celebrate American heritage and nature.

France over the weekend banned smoking in public parks, on beaches and at bus stops in an effort to protect children.

LexPark will be making its case this week for an increase in parking fees at some downtown garages.

NPR's Renee Montagne leaves her West Coast post to host in D.C. this week. That means she's hopping from the worst commute in the country to the second worst.

Lexington’s trail system got a little longer – officially – on Wednesday.

This year's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Clybourne Park" takes place on Chicago's Northwest Side on two distinct afternoons: one in 1959, the other in 2009. Inspired by the Groundbreaking drama, "A Raisin in the Sun," "Clybourne Park" highlights the politics of race and gentrification.

Twelve people, including a 3-year-old child, were injured late Thursday when someone opened fire on people in a park located in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood.

With the city's parking meter lease making voters leery of new privatization deals, Mayor Rahm Emanuel called for too many public interest protections in the Midway Airport lease, and too few investors saw it as worth the risk. Increasingly, though, governments turn to private investors to run public assets like roads and prisons.