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Update, 3:25 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28: PG&E says that as of 3 p.m. Monday it had restored electricity to about 229,000 customers of the 940,000-plus who were left in the dark by a public safety power shutoff that began Saturday. The process of restoring power involves aerial inspections of the thousands of miles of distribution … Continue reading With One Massive Blackout Still in Place, PG&E Planning for Yet Another Preemptive Outage →

Oregon health officials reported 61 new confirmed coronavirus cases Tuesday.

Supply chain backups are snarling ports — and are only expected to get worse before they get better.

Gov. Newsom expands the California drought emergency from 50 counties to statewide, but does not order mandatory water conservation. He did authorize water regulators to ban wasteful water use, such as spraying down public sidewalks.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with investigative reporter Ian Urbina about his piece The New Yorker. He headed into Libya to better understand its role in migrants' movement toward Europe.

CapRadio’s Ed Fletcher interviewed Bohyun Bahng, a scientist with the National Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska, and Michael Poland, a USGS geophysicist with Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.

Fidel Castro took power in Cuba in 1959, at the height of the Cold War and the peak of U.S. concern over communism. Follow Washington's policy toward Cuba through 10 U.S. presidencies.

"Steam loops" under hundreds of U.S. cities and universities have warmed buildings for a century. Now they could become a climate change solution.

There have been nearly two weeks of shelling around a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin said that Russia will allow international inspectors to enter the plant.

Download two handfuls of our favorite new songs, including music by British producer Tourist., German pop act Claire, New York City dance duo Holy Ghost!, rapper Jean Grae, punk-pop trio Upset, fiddle prodigy Sarah Jarosz and more.