With any luck, your veggie garden is producing tomatoes, zucchini, beans and cucumbers and your flowering shrubs and plants are weathering the drought.

Nantucket wakes most summer mornings wrapped in fog, yet the island is deep in drought. With a sole-source aquifer and no neighboring town to lean on, water restrictions have divided the island between lawns left to go golden and lawns kept impossibly green by private wells. A meditation on scarcity, privilege, and the strange beauty of a place learning to live with less water.

Jack Gallivan has a lot of questions while at his summer job. Produced by Mae Nagusky and Atlantic Public Media.

Twenty years ago, homeless prevention advocates came forward with a plan to end homelessness on the Cape. CAI documented their effort in a series called Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands. It was a bold and optimistic plan. But when revisiting the plan in a new reporting series 20 years later, we found that advocates were not anticipating a global pandemic.

The Garden Lady started off with a postcard about mid-summer Lavender care. Callers asked about a multitude of garden problems including fungus gnats in a houseplant, growing cucumbers, wild grapes, hydrangeas and carrots.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Congressman Blake Moore, R-Utah, about Republican efforts to move forward with a $95 billion party-line budget reconciliation bill.

About 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy.

Lawmakers are hoping to avoid a third shutdown since last September. The stopgap funding measure now heads to the Senate, where it faces an uncertain future.