Here & Now

In Eden, Kentucky, the air is thick with dust. The dying coal town is the fictional setting of Alix E. Harrow’s “Starling House.”

Many know chef Karen Akunowicz from her appearances on Food Network’s cooking competitions. But that’s just scratching the surface of the young chef’s already distinguished career.

A new bill would require venture capital companies in California to disclose the race and gender of those receiving funding.

When it comes to climate change, you can study statistics, graphs and charts. Or, you can just look.

A significant number of new HIV infections happen among Black women in the South, but even doctors are not familiar with the medicines known as PrEP, pre-exposure prophylaxis.

The case could have vast implications for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and a slew of bedrock federal agencies and programs.

The 1980s ushered in the era of MTV music videos. But decades earlier, in the 1940s, there were short music films called "soundies."

What is California without its golden shore? Rising seas are eroding California’s 1,000 miles of coastline, from sandy surf spots in Southern California to tidal marshes and rugged cliffs topped by Redwoods further north.

It's mating season for the big hairy spiders.

There's a shortage of primary care physicians for the more than 46 million Americans living in rural areas.