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Each year on Memorial Day weekend, West Virginia's best storytellers compete for the prestigious title of "Biggest Liar," in a tall- tale contest that draws large crowds. Two contest judges, including a five-time champion, spin a couple of whoppers.

In March and April, California set a sad new record: an unprecedented 4.5 million Californians filed claims for unemployment benefits. The state’s Employment Development Department (EDD) has been deluged with calls from would-be filers. The department has been adding more staff to get out unemployment checks, which to date are worth $12.3 billion, and rising. … Continue reading California Unemployment Claims Top 4.5 Million →

President?s Trump?s multibillion dollar project to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border is moving full steam ahead. The Department of Homeland Security is now accepting proposals from contractors. This

Lava from the Kilauea volcano is pouring into the Pacific Ocean, generating a plume of “laze” — hydrochloric acid and steam with fine glass particles — into the air.

Lava from the Kilauea volcano is pouring into the Pacific Ocean, generating a plume of "laze" — hydrochloric acid and steam with fine glass particles — into the air.

Nominees for the 2018 World Press Photo contest are both newsy and unexpected: child jockeys, a blindfolded rhino, cave-dwellers in China.

Gavin Newsom's initiatives follow a massive oil release from a Chevron facility in Kern County suspected of being caused by a high-pressure steam process for releasing oil from underground rock.

The Federal Trade Commission signed off on Tesla's plan to buy the solar panel installer. CEO Elon Musk is SolarCity's chairman and its largest shareholder.

From the coronavirus and wildfires, to 'Karens', underground secrets and Nostradamus, here are the stories you read most on kqed.org this year.

Heidi Brown's Army uniform is decorated with one small star, which marks her as a brigadier general. But at this point in her career, "gender now shuts the door for me," she says.