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At the turn of the century, some called San Francisco the Paris of the West. The 1906 earthquake leveled most of the city's theaters and artists' haunts. But the arts community rebounded to lead the city's recovery.

In this episode of Talk Humboldt with Keith and Tom, Arroyo talks about the job of supervisor, the 'boring but important' details that shape life in Humboldt, and why she appreciates the Coast Guard.

Russia has repeatedly denied any involvement in the destruction of the Malaysia Airlines flight shot down by a Russian missile over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing 298 passengers and crew.

Front-line workers in Houston, Seattle and New York City tell NPR about their experiences in hospitals over the last six months. "2020 can't keep going like this," one doctor says.

When Hurricane Irma changed direction and headed up the Gulf Coast of Florida, it left people in places like Fort Myers little time to prepare.

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Coast Guard Captain Jason Neubauer about the investigation of how the El Faro cargo ship and its crew sank after sailing into Hurricane Joaquin.

Once a game on the fringes of pop culture, Dungeons & Dragons now generates more than $800 million for its publisher, Washington-based Wizards of the Coast.

As planting season approaches, farmers who rely on foreign guest workers are in a bind. Some are turning to their newly unemployed neighbors in small towns for help in the fields.

A New Jersey man is basking in the good fortune of a $273 million lottery jackpot win that wouldn't have happened without the kindness of a stranger. He's trying to find that person to reward them.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Kelefa Sanneh, a music critic writing for The New Yorker, about his essay "How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge."