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This week I’d planned to head out on the first leg of our Great California Road Trip. But listener feedback convinced me that we need to talk more, first,…

Today we go “adventuring” with Mary Ellicott Arnold and her life partner, Mabel Reed, in the wilds of the Klamath and Salmon River country in 1908 and…

Native people called the high Modoc Plateau in northeastern California “the smiles of God,” still a strangely fitting name for this lonely remnant of the…

We head up the road this week to Monterey Bay.The only remembered line of the Ohlone people’s long-lost song of world renewal, “dancing on the brink of…

State parks along California’s North Coast offer great opportunities to explore—up close and personal—the long-ago processes that created the land beneath…

Montecito, just south of Santa Barbara, boasts surreal Lotusland, 37 acres of exotic gardens created by Madame Ganna Walska, thwarted opera singer and…

Nationwide some students are discovering that some of the coursework they take at their community college isn’t transferable to a four-year institution, we check in with one North State institution. Also, abortion rights groups in California say they’re navigating uncharted territory, and the state reparations task force is recommending down payments for racial harm.

A new report shows tuberculosis was one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide in 2015, and that the United Nations health body is not on track to meet its goals for reducing deaths from the disease.

When strawberries are in season, the Food Network's Amy Thielen's thinks of jam — sun jam. She shares her grandmother's method for making preserves with little more than sugar and the summer sun.

An NPR reporter takes an early mountain trip up one of New York's Adirondack mountains. (This piece originally aired July 6, 2022, on All Things Considered.)