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For decades, rising home prices have been an engine for middle-class wealth. Now a growing movement wants to slow — or even reverse — that trend. Are the politics around new housing development inherently stacked against them?

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown spoke Friday with OPB about the state's COVID-19 situation, criticism from some Republicans, and the challenges of expanding the unemployment system.

"State of Wonder" is traveling across the solar eclipse's path of totality, from Newport to the Ochoco National Forest and many places in-between. Follow the team on this once in a lifetime artistic and cosmic journey.

The country star plays songs and talks with Fresh Air about his grandfather's work in the coal mines. Yoakam's latest album, Swimmin' Pools, Movie Stars ... features bluegrass versions of his hits.

After a gunman attacked concertgoers late Sunday in Las Vegas, killing dozens of people and wounding hundreds of others, KQED collected statements made by California’s members of Congress reacting to the worst shooting in the nation’s modern history. We gathered comments made via social media, as well as from press releases sent out by each member’s office. We … Continue reading ‘Terrible Madness’: California’s Lawmakers React to Vegas Shooting →

The state’s unemployment agency has signed $236 million in private contracts as jobless workers await benefits. EDD says it needs the outside help.

Mongolia is undergoing a dramatic transformation from a pastoral society to one whose economy is based on mining, especially copper and coal. With the change has come opportunity — and loss.

If Biden wins in November, environmentalists say, his administration would have a slim window of opportunity to get our agencies back on track to meet the enormity of the climate crisis.

As a new year begins, we look back at some of our favorite interviews of 2021.

The Jewish community finds itself uniquely affected by two of the biggest stories currently making the news — the alleged Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, and the deadly conflict in Gaza. Author and Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, says even with violence overseas and the sting of the Madoff scandal, hope can be realized.