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The Grand Princess Cruise which has been circling off the California coast after 21 people aboard tested positive for the new coronavirus, is expected to dock at the Port of Oakland later this afternoon. Mayor Libby Schaaf assured Oakland residents that everything will be done to protect their safety once the ship docks.

Mendocino Coast Fishing Industry In a Slump In our first story reporting from Mendocino County, we find that the county’s longstanding fishing industry is waning. Reporter: Sheri Quinn Survey Finds Economic Hardship Among Disneyland Employees Disneyland employees routinely face threats of homelessness, according to a survey released this week. The survey, titled “Working for the … Continue reading The California Report →

On this episode of North Coast Update, Susan Andrews reports that True North Organizing Network and the Klamath Local Organizing Committee brought…

Amtrak Cascades and Coast Starlight services are suspended between Portland and Seattle until 10 p.m. Sunday.

This fall, The Redwood Coast Energy Authority and its private partners plan to bid for the right to propose a roughly 12 turbine wind farm about 25 miles off the shores of the Samoa Peninsula.

Paul Brown continues the weekly series "Honky Tonks, Hymns, and the Blues," with a profile of the Maddox Brothers and Rose, a group that influenced the sound and showmanship of country and western music during the 1940s and '50s. The Maddox family migrated from Alabama to California in the 1930s, picked cotton and fruit crops up and down the West Coast, and performed at migrant labor camps. Their sound was an early model for Rockabilly music.

The commission investigating the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, says al Qaeda's plan originally called for using 10 jetliners to attack numerous targets on the East and West coasts. In a blow to one of the Bush administration's rationales for the war in Iraq, the panel finds "no credible evidence" that Iraq was involved in the attacks. NPR's Larry Abramson reports.

The new book Shadow Divers tells the true story of two dive enthusiasts who solved a mystery from World War Two off the coast of New Jersey. Ritchie Kohler and John Chatterton plunged to dangerous depths and found a Nazi U-boat on the ocean floor. NPR's Renee Montagne talks with author Robert Kurson about the discovery.

Airbnb will park the gang's psychedelic van on the southern California coast and rent it out for three one-night stays. The tricked-out van comes with a bed, a wood-paneled interior and a lava lamp.

It covers almost 80 square miles off the coast of Western Australia. It looks like a massive meadow of seagrass, but it is actually a single seedling that's been cloning itself over and over again.