On The Garden Lady C.L. welcomed Horticulturalist Leslie Halleck, author of Home Greenhouse Revival: Growing Year-Round Foliage, Flowers, and Food. She opened the program with a postcard from biennials, and listeners called in with questions about timing for bulb planting, growing citrus indoors, growing plants under a Norway maple, and how to grow upright Nippon daisies.

A review of the week's local headlines with our region's leading jouralists.

Massachusetts Department of Public Health has designated alpha-gal syndrome a “reportable condition,” illustrating how serious, and how common, the health problem has become.

Experts estimate food-related deaths and illness cost the economy about one and a half trillion dollars a year. That's like a second defense budget, and then some.

How the Cape-based non-profit Advocates for a Community College Education supports students in their pursuit of higher education.

Zelenskyy described the move as unfortunate, adding it would encourage Russia to continue its assault. Trump told Congress that the pause was in the national interest but gave no further details.

More than three decades after the end of apartheid, families of victims of some of the worst crimes of South Africa's past are still fighting for justice. As survivors and perpetrators grow older, a new wave of legal efforts is seeking truth, accountability and reparations before it's too late.

The coalition behind nationwide anti-Trump protests is shifting its strategies this weekend to focus on voter turnout. Organizers say Saturday's events are a nonpartisan effort to get people to the polls.