Born blind in Hyannis and raised in Harwich, Paul Pena went from Perkins School for the Blind to the San Francisco blues scene, where Steve Miller turned his "Jet Airliner" into a hit. A shortwave radio broadcast from Moscow then led him to teach himself Tuvan throat singing and earn an Academy Award-nominated documentary.

We’re seeing the impacts of beech leaf disease in individual trees and in our coastal beech forests.

We talk with author David Gessner about his upcoming writing workshop.

The new programming is made possible by a $2.5 million grant from a philanthropic foundation.

Question 9 on the November ballot asks if the state should keep a wide-ranging gun law signed in 2024.

Each week, a guest draws a card from NPR's Wild Card deck and answers a big question about their life. Pádraig Ó Tuama's poetry examines faith and sexuality. His new collection is "Love Between Men."

Opera singers often leave their careers when their voices are at their best, because the workload isn't manageable anymore.

People on Alabama's Gulf Coast have been preparing or evacuating as Hurricane Isaias is likely to make landfall late Friday as a possible category 2 hurricane with winds around 100 miles per hour.