Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Loretha Plair, a cook at Wing Elementary, takes a break in the Wing Elementary cafeteria Feb. 7 in Sikeston. Wing’s cafeteria is a ...

NEW MADRID — At the New Madrid Historical Museum there’s an earthquake simulator where visitors get to play engineer. At their disposal are cylindrical wooden sticks and rectangular boards that can be ...

It took a split second for the instincts of Principal Laura Gutierrez to kick in when an earthquake coursed through Aldama Elementary School in Highland Park as she stood outside supervising recess.

In the face of a looming Cascadia earthquake, an Oregonian/OregonLive investigation into the structural integrity of Portland-area schools revealed that years after initial warnings, many students ...

Nicole Michaelis has done the math. Her son, a kindergartener, spends only about 12% of his time at Beverly Cleary K-8 School in Northeast Portland. Out of the 80 schools in Portland Public Schools, ...