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Coral in an area in the Atlantic Ocean stretching from Connecticut to Virginia has been protected from deep-sea commercial fishing gear, by a new rule issued this week.

A tiny township in Michigan, best known as a vacation resort area, has become one of the top markets for marijuana sales. And it now has a new nickname: New Puffalo.

Laser technology is being used to more accurately measure mountain snowpack — crucial information for farmers and water managers in drought-stricken areas like the Colorado River Basin.

In rural, coastal areas, rising groundwater is flooding people's properties from underneath, causing septic tanks to fail. States are responding, but it could be a losing battle in some places.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly reports from the boundary line of the Russian-controlled area in northern Georgia, which saw heavy fighting during the 2008 Russian invasion.

Everything from your vocal cord vibrations to breathing patterns when you speak offers potential information about your health. Researchers are collecting voice data to one day use in an app.

Actor Douglas Rain died on Sunday from natural causes in Ontario. He was 90 and is best known for the voice of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which came out 50 years ago this year.

The singer, songwriter and producer said she's working with her team to make "a program that should simulate my voice well but we could also upload stems and samples for ppl to train their own."

"I hope we can raise our voices to protect our right to have a safe abortion," the pop star said, prompting cheers from the audience.

Nine artists including T-Pain, Demi Lovato and Charlie Puth have granted Google permission to use their singing voices for the new tool, Dream Track.

Another huge winter storm has slammed California's coastal and inland areas with strong winds and heavy rain and snow. It has downed power lines and closed roads and is linked to at least two deaths.

One of the biggest Afghan expat communities in the U.S. is in California's Bay Area. With the Taliban's return threatening artists in their homeland, Afghans in America are embracing activism.

In western Kentucky, the city of Mayfield got walloped by Friday night's tornado. Huge swathes of the area were destroyed and an unknown number of people were killed.

Rain was best known for the eerie, sonorous voice he lent to HAL 9000 in the 1968 Stanley Kubrick film. However, he was also celebrated for his decades of performances on the Shakespearean stage.

Known as "The Voice of Iran," Googoosh was silenced by the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Active again since 2000, she uses music to keep Iranians forced to leave the country in touch with their culture.

The memory unit from the cockpit voice recorder belonging to the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 that crashed into the Java Sea has been recovered, investigators say. All 62 people aboard were killed.

Adele won two Grammys in 2009 for her debut album, 19. She's just released her second album, 21, which was recorded when she was that age. (She's now 22.) Rock critic Ken Tucker says it's Adele's voice, even more than her material, that makes her special.

If you missed the on-air broadcast of Northern Voices, or if you'd like to listen again to Leah and Heidi chatting about Story Art & Museum, click the player at the top of the page to hear more. Here is Leah's introduction to this week's episode:

Bemidji Community Theater's production begins this weekend, and Paul Loxtercamp gave us a behind-the-scenes look at the play.

"I've yet to find an indigenous people who, in their language, there's a specific word for art, because it's so intrinsic, and so much a part of who we…