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A traditional map of Oregon shows the Cascades, the Willamette Valley, the high desert and the coast. But there's a lot of information NOT depicted, like the indigenous lands of Oregon's Native Americans and the original place names given to them. David Harrelson, head of Cultural Resources with the Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde, explains how cartographers are working to counter this erasure by de-colonizing maps of indigenous lands.

An Amtrak Coast Starlight train that had been stranded 40 miles east of Eugene since Sunday started moving Tuesday morning.

Since California's power system went haywire, there's been a renewal of interest among West Coast cities in public providers of power. {Public power advocates say electricity from municipally owned companies is cheaper and more reliable.} But not everyone likes the idea of cities getting into the power-generating business. {Detractors say it's expensive and that lower prices are no sure thing.} NPR's Elaine Korry has a report.

Having worked the West Coast earlier in the week, Texas Governor George W. Bush was bearing down on the Midwestern states again today, campaigning in Missouri, Illinois and Wisconsin. Bush warned that Gore's plans for seniors were just a "hop, skip and a jump" from nationalizing the U.S. health care system. Gore, meanwhile, campaigned in Illinois as well and had plenty of warnings of his own. In Chicago he told a crowd that "prosperity is on the ballot," and warned against Bush's environmental record. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

There's an opening for the next landlord of Piel Island, which is about half a mile off England's northwestern coast. A big responsibility will be running a centuries-old pub called The Ship Inn.

Hurricane Jeanne, leaving a devastated Haiti in its wake, could hit Florida's Atlantic coast by Sunday. And Hurricane Ivan, which tore through Alabama and the Florida Panhandle last week, has doubled back and is gathering strength again in the Gulf of Mexico. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and Dan Brown of the National Hurricane Center.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is set after World War II and follows a London writer who becomes enthralled with the stories of Nazi occupation of the island of Guernsey, off the British coast. Author Mary Ann Shaffer died before she could complete it, but her niece stepped in.

Pirates are holding a Ukrainian-operated ship carrying 33 Russian-built tanks off the coast of Somalia. They're demanding a ransom of $20 million for the release of the ship and crew members. One of the pirates says they will fight to the death if attacked. An American warship, the U.S.S Howard, is monitoring the situation.

Warmer air temperatures have triggered the collapse of an enormous ice shelf along the coast of Antarctica, scientists say.

A volcano on Spain's Atlantic Ocean island of La Palma erupted Sunday after a weeklong buildup of seismic activity. Lava flows destroyed isolated homes on the nearby mountainside.