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Alexandra Bacaj oversees KPBS’ newsletters and email marketing operations, and manages several of the station's other digital marketing and fundraising platforms. She also writes the weekly KPBS Streaming Picks newsletter.

When luggage and its owner can't be reunited, airlines sell it to a store in Alabama, where its contents are sold to the public. The result is a grab bag of normal and odd things people travel with.

An effort to diversify genetic studies has led to a discovery about Parkinson's disease in people of African descent.

Leishmaniasis, a disease spread by a parasite carried by sand flies, is generally considered a tropical disease. Now, thanks to climate change, new research finds it's endemic to the United States.

New York on Tuesday became the latest state in the nation to move to force schools to do away with the use of Native American team names or mascots. Those that don't comply risk losing their funding.

The fast food and oil industries are only the latest to seek a referendum to stop, or at least delay, a law passed by the state Legislature. The return on investment can be huge — so much money that some are calling for changing the referendum rules in California.

Rice's whales are one of the world's newly discovered whale species – and already one of the most endangered. Protections for the whales in the Gulf of Mexico are not coming fast.

Sew Loka's 10 Year Anniversary Event "Community Over Competition" is happening on Saturday, March 25 from Noon to 9 p.m. inside the Sew Loka sewing studio. The event will include a Community Art Show curated by Studio IX @thisgirlhugstress @_eyegato_, live DJs, live painting, live screen printing, live Skills Pay Bills podcast, artisan and food vendors, and a new mural unveiling by local artist, Julia Martinez. This is the first time we will be using the large parking lot behind our shop to host an event!

Monday, Feb. 13, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Watch charming appraisals from Cheekwood Estate & Gardens including an 1880 Celia Thaxter hand-painted vase, a 1964 Presidential Rolex with the box and papers, and a Mary Elizabeth Price painted screen, ca. 1925. Guess the top find!

The missing submersible is equipped with several mechanisms that can bring it back to the surface during an emergency, according to a former passenger.