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Banks and post offices took the day off, calling it Columbus Day. Other people choose to observe the (approximate) date of Columbus's arrival in the "new…

Scientists have detected plenty of planets outside our solar system. Now, they say, they've found the first moon circling one of them.

The history of Southern Oregon is intimately connected to a few industries- logging, mining, and agriculture. These “heritage industries,” are crucial to…

Sadie Roberts-Joseph was a prominent civil rights activist and community leader in Baton Rouge, La. She founded the city's African American history museum in 2001.

Actor Steven Skybell and director Joel Grey discuss a new Yiddish language version of Fiddler on the Roof. Justin Chang reviews Midsommar. Tracy Edwards raced around the world with an all-women crew.

Last month, photographer Cayla Nimmo documented the scenes of Diné Pride in Window Rock, Ariz. The festivities were in the shadow of the Navajo Nation's same-sex marriage ban.

The Cascade Theater in Redding was inaugurated in 1935. By the mid-1990s, it was on the verge of collapse.That is until the JPR Foundation (the parent…

The Keenest Observers is an occasional segment dealing with difference and inclusion in a place where the vast majority of people are white.This month we…

Historian Daniel Immerwahr shares surprising stories of U.S. territorial expansion, including how the desire for bird guano compelled the seizure of remote islands. His book is How to Hide an Empire.

The Columbia is the river everyone seems to know about but doesn’t really "know." The Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership would like to change that — with a water trail you can paddle.