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The 2,300-mile Volga River is Russia's pride and lifeblood. It provides water, power and transport and has played a key role in Russia's history. Now, in post-Soviet times, the river and its communities are under threat from economic woes and environmental concerns.

Floating through space right now is a golden record carrying sounds of Earth: a mother's first words to her baby, the sound of a kiss, and music from all over the world. Ann Druyan helped to create the NASA project as a guide to Earth for aliens. And like any good mix tape — interstellar or not — it led to the man of her dreams.

We discuss what this setback will mean for San Diego-based Arena Pharmaceuticals.

Airs Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

For more than 100 years, Californians have embraced the idea that if you don’t like the way state laws work, go out and write some of your own.

San Francisco's subway shut off cellphone service to thwart protesters, inciting a legal controversy. First Amendment scholars say they can't remember a time when a public agency in the U.S. moved to disrupt wireless traffic in quite that way, while Bay Area Rapid Transit officials say they had to protect riders' safety.

The night before he died, Wyatt Whitebread couldn't stand the thought of going back to the grain bins on the edge of Mount Carroll, Ill.

This week federal investigators are preparing to hold hearings into the cause of the fatal blast in San Bruno, Calif., last September. Preliminary reports from federal investigators cast blame on defective welds in a 60-year-old pipeline.

CNN and other news organizations are reporting today that a federal judge has ordered that the U.S. military stop enforcing the don’t ask, don’t tell policy on Tuesday.

Negotiations continue over what to do about redevelopment in California. Specifically, Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to dissolve local redevelopment agencies and use the freed up property tax dollars elsewhere.