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NorCAN: Good Work | Humboldt County Children’s Author Festival begins next month

Michael Kraft

The Northern California Association of Nonprofits, or NorCAN, helps to connect, strengthen, and support local nonprofits. Learn about nonprofit organizations, and the work they do each week with the Good Work Series!

North Coast Conversations: Jeff Woodke, who spent six years as a hostage in Niger, wrote a memoir of his experience

Stephanie McGeary, Alejandro Zepeda

This week we sat down with local author and poet Jeff Woodke to learn more about his experience as a hostage and his new book, All the Way Home.

From the 'Save Mt. Diablo' Facebook page

EcoNews Report: Prop 45 would limit environmental and public review for new developments

Scott Greacen, Alicia Hamann, Jennifer Kalt, Tom Wheeler

Elizabeth Reid-Wainscoat of the Center for Biological Diversity joins the program to discuss why her organization is urging voters to vote "no" on California's Prop 45.

EcoNews Report: Protecting our night skies with the 'dark skies' ordinance

Scott Greacen, Alicia Hamann, Jennifer Kalt, Tom Wheeler

Sylvia van Royen, GIS & Policy Analyst for Humboldt Waterkeeper, joins the program to discuss the lighting ordinance and how Humboldt residents can adapt their outdoor lighting to be friendlier to wildlife.

David J. Sencer CDC Museum at the Edward R. Roybal campus, the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. CDC is the national public health agency of the United States, under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

As diseases loom, CDC's response to measles deaths stirs fears about agency's reliability

Rob Stein

The worst U.S. measles outbreak in decades is growing and flu season is imminent. Experts are fretting about federal health data reliability after the CDC questioned two Pennsylvania measles deaths.

From left: Lonnie Griffith Bunch III, the president, Nichelle Nichols aka Uhura.

Will you get $5,000 to do the news quiz? No. But will it be fun? Maybe

Holly J. Morris

Plus: donkeys, maps, art, iPhones and more!

Lucelly, who asked NPR to withhold her last name, is an undocumented worker from Colombia who went to clean up at ground zero after the Sept. 11 attacks. Since then she has battled breast cancer and respiratory disease.

They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE

Jasmine Garsd

After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.

NorCAN: Good Work | The Redwood Coast Reading Alliance helps support people with dyslexia

Michael Kraft

The Northern California Association of Nonprofits, or NorCAN, helps to connect, strengthen, and support local nonprofits. Learn about nonprofit organizations, and the work they do each week with the Good Work Series!

This fossilized feather dates back 66 million years to the late Cretaceous. "It is, without a doubt, the best feather we've ever found from the age of dinosaurs," says Jingmai O'Connor, an associate curator at the Field Museum of Natural History.

A fossil feather from the age of dinosaurs may explain why only some birds survived

Ari Daniel

An extremely well preserved fossil feather could reveal why some birds survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid, and others did not.

Varga in front of the soon-to-open Sorell Leaf Healing Center

North Coast Conversations: The Sorrel Leaf Healing Center

Stephanie McGeary, Alejandro Zepeda

Shireen Varga, executive director of the Sorrel Leaf Healing Center, joins the program to discuss the new center's mental health programs for local youth.