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President Bush reveals what he said were new details of a failed al Qaeda plot in 2002 to crash a plane into the tallest building on the West Coast. The president also said that global cooperation has significantly weakened the terrorist network since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

North of Alaska, the deepest part of the Arctic Ocean goes more than a mile down and is locked in ice. An international team of scientists is probing this so-called Hidden Ocean, from a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker. NPR's Richard Harris sends an audio postcard from the expedition.

West Coast admirers of the late president view his flag-draped casket at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library near Los Angeles. After a funeral in Washington, D.C., later this week, the 40th president will be buried at a memorial site at the library. Hear NPR's Madeleine Brand.

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.