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Fires in Washington state, Oregon and Northern California have firefighters overtaxed and needing a break — relief is coming from New Zealand and Australia.

Mexico Beach, Fla., was leveled more than 3 years ago by Hurricane Michael. As hurricane season begins, a major business, a hotel, is reopening and the real estate market is hotter than ever.

Evictions in some once-affordable suburbs are on the rise. During the pandemic, people looking for more space left high-priced cities and moved to the burbs, pushing out lower income renters there.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg Bank in Berlin, Germany, about high inflation across the Eurozone.

The high cost of rebuilding drove some residents out. But there are many newcomers. A real estate agent says, "It used to be called the Forgotten Coast. I don't think it's so forgotten anymore."

The upcoming "season" for campaign ads will bring plenty of charges, countercharges and downright lies. Here's your preview of what's to come in the political ad wars.

It would mark only the second year without a cost-of-living adjustment since automatic adjustments for inflation were adopted in 1975. The first year was this year. "If you're the ruling party, this is not the sort of thing you want to have happening two weeks before an election,'' says one analyst.

Hurricane Tomas skirted Haiti's capital last week, but the storm drenched the earthquake-ravaged country, highlighting its still-fragile state. Almost 10 months after the quake, more than a million people are living in makeshift camps. Even at one of the "better" camps, life is incredibly difficult.

At their first Cabinet meeting Thursday, onetime rivals Prime Minister David Cameron and his deputy, Nick Clegg, portrayed their coalition as the new face of British politics. But to tackle Britain's problems, they'll have to overcome deep ideological differences between and within their own parties.

Near Fort Myers, Fla., husband-and-wife real estate agents Ray and Florie Gage are losing their retirement dream home to foreclosure. But self-described vagabond Jim Foutz just bought a house for $88,000 — and the Gages helped him make the deal.