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What's the role for local media in the 24/7 digital age? We'll look at the changing relationship between the media and public and how local news organizations will survive in the future.

A Web site known for helping entrepreneurs in developing countries has turned its sights on the United States. It raises money from Internet users and dispenses microloans of $25 or more. A woman who runs a housekeeping business received $2,000 within one day of her request.

Parents and volunteers in Palo Alto, Calif., have begun a nightly watch at a railroad crossing where four teens from the same high school have been victims of suicide in the past six months.

More than 200 years after a British diplomat arranged to have large sculptures from the Parthenon shipped to Britain, author Christopher Hitchens says the objects should now be returned. A new state-of-the-art museum in Athens wants them, but officials at the British Museum plan to hold on to one of their most famous collections.

Is Star Trek really the next generation or simply a reflection of us today? We'll explore the history and culture of the popular science fiction television series as it relates to war, race relations and technology.

As part of our election coverage, we'll look at some of the county-wide races on the June 8 ballot, including the supervisors, sheriff and Prop B.

The largest earthquake drill in U.S. history takes place Thursday morning. More than five million Californians are expected to 'duck, cover and hold.' KPBS Reporter Ana Tintocalis has more.

President Obama has pledged to end childhood hunger by 2015. But the number of hungry children in America has been rising: In 2008, almost 17 million children lived in households where getting enough food was a challenge. The Williamson family of five in Carlisle, Pa., who make $18,000 a year, highlight this struggle.

Remaking Romero's Infected People Film

AvtoVAZ, maker of Russia's iconic Lada sedans, will lay off 25,000 employees this December. One of every 7 residents in Togliatti, the city built in the late 1960s around the company, works at the Lada plant.