Alex Ottoboni with his balcony solar panel at his condo in the San Francisco Bay Area

A delivery in Wilmington, N.C., this month. Heat is linked to hundreds of workplace deaths each year, but labor groups say the true toll is unknown because heat-related illnesses are not properly tracked or reported.

For Dr. Alister Martin, New York City’s new health commissioner, keeping New Yorkers insured could prove to be the main challenge of his tenure.

Chef Joe Randall, executive chef and owner of his self-titled cooking school, in 2016. “He made it clear that Black foodways are foundational to American cuisine, not a footnote to it,” the chef Marcus Samuelsson said.

The John H. Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester, N.H.

The only hospital in Martin County, N.C., closed two years ago.

Packaging the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol for mailing to patients.

Newport, N.H., last week.

Oregon declared a state of emergency last week. At least 11 people in the state are reported to have died of weather-related causes.

A resident clearing sidewalks in Albany on Sunday. Parts of the Northeast recorded a foot of snow.