Drought, nor’easters, and chipmunks are one thing, but bishop’s weed is a Cape Cod garden foe that keeps coming back no matter how much gets pulled. With the fall garden in full color, the essayist weighs containment against surrender and finds some beauty in the standoff.

A new portrait and narrative series offers an intimate look into the lives of our immigrant neighbors.

On today's program C.L. talks about some of the garden maintenance that you might want to do right now, and what you can or should ignore. C.L. talks with Dave Burton, maker of the Burton Cape Cod Weeder about precision weeding, and goes on to list some of the need to do, the nice to do, and the NUTS to do fall garden tasks. Listeners called about assorted topics including groundcovers, dying ivy, and moving plants before construction.

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

The Sierra Club says the publicly funded $302 million gas pipeline to Cape Cod could carry double the gas of the old lines, conflicting with public goals to reduce the use of fossil fuels.

Voting in Israel has ended and exit polls suggest most Israelis have voted against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But the center-right opposition may struggle to build a governing coalition.

In the Peruvian Andes, a hotel owner is helping his community prepare for wildfires. It's a role that's put him and other local businesses at the forefront of helping Peru respond to El Nino threats.

Intense rainstorms linked to a very active El Niño-driven Pacific hurricane season have left thousands of people in the Four Corners states displaced.