Beyond Hot Air: Political Blimps Take To Swing State Skies
How do you reach an audience of more than 200,000 people a day in an important swing state without buying an expensive TV ad? If you're Sid Overton, you build a blimp and fly it alongside one of...
View ArticleFitness Boot Camps May Get The Boot In Santa Monica, Calif.
If you haven't been to Palisades Park — the famous oceanfront park in Santa Monica, Calif. — chances are you have seen its swaying palm trees and sweeping ocean vistas in movies and commercials....
View ArticleSequestered Spring Means Fewer Rangers, Services At National Parks
Spring has come early to the Yosemite Valley, and the melting snow makes for a spectacular rush of water off the granite face of Yosemite Falls, the tallest in North America. Early March is when park...
View ArticleOwens Valley Salty As Los Angeles Water Battle Flows Into Court
In the West, fights over water last a long time. It's been almost 100 years since William Mulholland stood atop an aqueduct along the Owens River and said, "There it is, take it." He was referring to a...
View ArticleA Turning Point For Talking About Suicide And Guns In Wyoming
Guns are a big part of everyday life in Wyoming, and many residents have been directly impacted by a suicide in which a gun was used. The state has the highest suicide rate in the nation, and...
View ArticleBattling Suicide In A 'Gun State' Means Treading Carefully
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgPjT88ZfaE Wyoming has the highest per capita suicide rate in the nation. Guns are also a big part of everyday life: The state has one of the highest rates of gun...
View ArticleL.A. Schools Hire Security Aides To Watch For Threats
Tenth Street Elementary is in the Pico-Union district of Los Angeles, a few blocks west of the Staples Center and downtown skyscrapers. It's a tough neighborhood; school security is always an issue. On...
View ArticleLooking To Broaden Appeal, RNC Heads To Hollywood
The Republican National Committee is holding its spring meeting in the Democratic stronghold of Hollywood this week — part of an effort to broaden the party's appeal. So far, there are sharp divisions...
View ArticleWhy An Immigration Deal Won't Solve The Farmworker Shortage
The Salinas Valley in Northern California grows about 80 percent of the country's lettuce, and it takes a lot of people to pick and pack it. In a field owned by Duda Farm Fresh Foods , a dozen...
View ArticleA Splash Of 'Urban Ocean' On A Southern California Cruise
A cruise run by the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, Calif., sounds like a picturesque summer outing. But the Urban Ocean boat cruise highlights the juxtaposition of a powerful port with a...
View ArticleLA Mayoral Candidates Try To Persuade Voters To Pay Attention
The candidates have spent a record amount of money. They've stumped hard in a city that isn't easy to campaign in — 470 square miles sliced up into neighborhoods divided by a web of freeways. Yet...
View ArticleCalif. Law To Require Ships To Cut Pollution
Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit DAVID GREENE, HOST: Two ports, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, handle almost half of all of the consumer goods being shipped into the United States....
View ArticleYahoo To Buy Tumblr In An Attempt To Revitalize Itself
Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: NPR's business news starts with a big blogging buyout. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) GREENE: Today, Yahoo announced its purchase...
View ArticleBaptist Church In Oklahoma Churns Out Meals For Victims
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Hundreds of volunteers have come to Moore, Okla., this week to help the community after Monday's deadly tornado. Some people are cleaning...
View ArticleRail Project At Los Angeles Port Draws Environmentalists' Ire
In California, a high-profile lawsuit is seeking to halt construction of a new $500 million rail yard next to the Port of Los Angeles. Activists, including a national environmental group that's...
View ArticleColorado Springs Learns To Live With Fire
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Colorado is often the site of devastating forest fires, but the city of Colorado Springs has been hit particularly hard as of late. In the...
View ArticleSummer 'Heat Tourists' Sweat With Smiles In Death Valley
It's no secret that Death Valley, Calif., is one of the hottest, most unforgiving places on Earth come summertime. July 10 is the 100th anniversary of the hottest temperature ever recorded on the...
View ArticleAfter Years Of Violence, L.A.'s Watts Sees Crime Subside
On most weeknights, in the middle of his shift, Los Angeles police officer Keith Mott trades his gun and uniform for a T-shirt and shorts, and heads to a park in the Watts neighborhood of South Los...
View ArticleFarm Laborers Get A Foothold With Their Own Organic Farms
Northern California's Salinas Valley is often dubbed America's salad bowl. Large growers there have long relied on thousands of seasonal workers from rural Mexico to pick lettuce , spinach and celery...
View ArticleOf Bison, Birth Control And An Island Off Southern Calif.
In an open-aired Jeep, it's a bone-jarring ride into Santa Catalina Island's vast interior. The dirt road winds and climbs, twists and turns, climbing 2,000 feet up. From there, the deep blue of the...
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