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Offshore oil and gas drilling has been a contentious issue in California for 50 years, ever since a rig ruptured and spilled 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil off the Santa Barbara coast in 1969. related Today it’s spurring a new debate: whether to completely dismantle 27 oil and gas platforms scattered along the … Continue reading Retired Oil Rigs Off California Coast Could Be Reborn As Artificial Reefs →

The Trump administration has sent bombers to the Middle East to counter what it says are Iranian threats. Key to the campaign is National Security Advisor John Bolton, who's focused on Iran decades.

U.S. border officials strictly limit the number of asylum seekers they allow to legally cross ports of entry every day, creating an enormous backlog of migrants in places like Matamoros.

As California wildfires scar more lives and char more property year after year, residents must now grapple with the distinct possibility of opening their front door one day to the sight of a raging inferno. To be sure, fire has always been a part of life in the state, and it always will — many … Continue reading We Can Make California Wildfires Less Horrific. Will We? →

Portland Police Chief Danielle Outlaw repeatedly asked speakers Thursday night to come with solutions to mistrust toward the police bureau present for “years and years."

Gil Villagran was expelled from San Jose State as an undergraduate for protesting against the Vietnam War.

Smoke from wildfires is blanketing much of the West. That's ruining some crops and may be stunting others. And it's making it difficult or unsafe for laborers to pick the harvest.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and the Brookings Institution, and David Brooks of The New York Times, about Republican leadership's bad week and the rollout of a Republican effort to overhaul the tax code.

Mark Lacy, an audience member in the VIP section at the Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, witnessed the shooting at close range, and he even stood next to someone shot in the head. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Lacy, who stayed on the scene well into the early morning hours helping the injured.

The governor wants a fracking ban. A top legislator wants to reduce oil drilling of all kinds. But the industry and its workers are pushing back hard.