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In 2017 two brothers from Scotland released a toy pirate ship which was lost at sea. They tried again with Adventure II — attaching a GPS so they could track its movements and share on social media.

It takes a lot of hard work to curb gun violence at the community level. For the past few years, those efforts in Richmond and Oakland were paying off. But then the pandemic happened, and a lot of in-person community building became unsafe, and advocates fear years of hard work has been lost to the … Continue reading Gun Violence in the Bay Was Decreasing. Then the Pandemic Happened. →

In the past few years, efforts to curb gun violence at the community level was paying off in Richmond and Oakland. But when the pandemic hit, a lot of in-person community building became unsafe, and now advocates fear years of hard work have been lost.

COFA islanders, who are from the Marshall Islands, Palau and Micronesia, have a unique relationship with the United States that began in 1986, but they lost access to Medicaid in 1996 and advocates have been working to restore eligibility ever since.

You Lose Your Home in a Fire — Then What? Karina Gonzalez and her family of 14 lost their home in the Ranch fire, part of the Mendocino Complex. They’re living out of tents now, and worry they won’t be able to find affordable housing for all of them in Mendocino County. Reporter: Hope McKenney … Continue reading You Lose Your Home in a Fire — Then What? →

Vallejo Police last week released body camera footage from the June 2 fatal police shooting of Sean Monterrosa, whose family has joined a group of families who’ve lost loved ones to Vallejo police violence. This week, The Bay is re-running our three-part series on policing in Vallejo to contextualize this most recent police shooting, and … Continue reading Who’s Policing Vallejo Police? →

Applications for unemployment assistance in California rose last week, as nearly 237,000 residents filed claims for lost jobs.

"October Sky" starts out in that quiet, inward space so familiar in these Billie Eilish days, as Yebba invokes a lo-fi filtered childhood memory of a lost loved one.

It's been a year since Enron collapsed and filed for bankruptcy. Many of the more than 4,000 people who lost jobs in Houston managed to find work, but fully a third did not. Goodwyn profiles one of the lucky ones, Phyllis Anzalone. Anzalone used the collapse of Enron to launch her own business and she's doing well. Her company specializes in helping other companies buy electricity on the cheap. NPR'S Wade Goodwyn reports from Houston. (4:15)

The shakeout in telecom and internet business has been especially fierce this year. NPR's Jim Zarroli has a profile of Joe Nadan, a high-tech executive in Yonkers, N.Y., who lost his job more than a year ago and has been looking for something new ever since. Nadan knows the obstacles: He is older than most job hunters and over-qualified for many of the jobs that come up.