Ed Komenda

Muddy desert plain seen on September 3, 2023, after heavy rains turned the annual Burning Man festival site in Nevada’s Black Rock desert into a mud pit. Tens of thousands of festivalgoers were stranded September 3, in deep mud in the Nevada desert after rain turned the annual Burning Man gathering into a quagmire, with police investigating one death.<br />
Video footage showed costume-wearing “burners” struggling across the wet gray-brown site, some using trash bags as makeshift boots, while many vehicles were stuck in the sludge. (Photo by Julie JAMMOT / AFP) (Photo by JULIE JAMMOT/AFP via Getty Images)

Burning Man organizers have 3 weeks to tidy up an apocalyptic expanse of abandoned cars, furniture, and trash after the festival turned into a mud bog

By Ed Komenda, Gabe Stern, and others

Oregon crab vendor

Oregon’s veteran crabbers are terrified their work will disappear because activists want to stop ‘extremely rare’ cases of whale entanglement

By Ed Komenda and The Associated Press

Plan B vending machine

The Supreme Court’s defeat of Roe v. Wade is leading to an explosion of Plan B vending machines on college campuses

By Ed Komenda, Susan Haigh, and others

FILE – Employees walk through a lobby at Amazon’s headquarters on Nov. 13, 2018, in Seattle. A group of Amazon workers upset about recent layoffs, a return-to-office mandate and the company’s environmental impact is planning a walkout at its Seattle headquarters Wednesday. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Amazon headquarters workers set to walk out over layoffs and return-to-office mandate

By Ed Komenda and The Associated Press