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We’re taking advantage of a slow week in Oregon politics to bring you a recent conversation with Oregon Gov. Kate Brown on OPB’s "Think Out Loud."

34 Missing in Boat Fire Off the Coast of Santa Cruz Island Early this morning off the coast of Santa Barbara a boat caught fire and almost three dozen people who were on it are missing. The Ventura County Fire Department says they responded to the scene around 3:30 am, along with the Coast Guard … Continue reading 34 Missing in Boat Fire Off the Coast of Santa Cruz Island →

The governor and attorney general support it. Prosecutors are lobbying for it. But there's still uncertainty over whether lawmakers will come together to tweak the state's death penalty laws.

President Biden will make his first address in front of a joint session of Congress on Wednesday — one day ahead of his 100th day in office.

A wildfire along California's Central Coast, south of San Francisco, has destroyed dozens of homes. Hundreds of families have been evacuated. To keep the fire from consuming anymore homes, crews are trying to guide the fire into a national forest.

Rachel Martin talks with Michael Schmidt of The New York Times about a report that Trump adviser Carter Page testified Thursday that he told Jeff Sessions in 2016 about a trip he took to Russia.

In this special edition of Lost and Found Sound, 20 years of recordings from a small tobacco town were recorded by James Eddie McCoy. The collection is called A Man Tapes his Town -The Unrelenting Oral Histories of Eddie McCoy.

The Coast Guard is reacting to reports that it had downgraded swastikas, nooses and other hate symbols in its new harassment manual. A new policy debuted overnight.

NPR's Jackie Northam reports on members of a wandering band of young Sudanese refugees who are being resettled in the American Midwest. After losing their parents during the country's 40 years of civil war, thousands of orphans streaming into Kenya became known as the 'Lost Boys of Sudan.'

The United Kingdom's cultural makeup has shifted many times through the centuries, but for some struggling in England, the latest changes are coming too fast.