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Combined water and sewer rates to go up around $7.76 a year into 2025 for average Ventura homeowner.

50,000 residents remain under an evacuation order into Monday as emergency services attempt to take control of a potentially explosive situation at a nearby aerospace manufacturing plant.

U.S. farmers are feeling the impact of Trump's immigration crackdown. In some communities, immigration raids have slowed farm operations. NPR reports from Central Florida's strawberry region.

Maxwell sounded nothing like the heavily sampled hip-hop-inspired R&B musicians that dominated the airwaves a quarter-century ago.

Half the country's adults are now fully vaccinated and nearly two-thirds have a single dose as restrictions continue to lift and COVID-19 cases drop.

Dawnie Walton's novel is a faux oral history about an interracial rock duo. Opal is a Black proto Afro-punk singer from Detroit, and Nev is a goofy white British singer-songwriter.

Journalist Peter Bergen visited bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, before it was demolished. His new book, The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden, draws on materials seized in the raid.

Colette Maze, now 107, began playing the piano at age 5. She defied the social conventions of her era to embrace music as a profession rather than as a pastime. She has just released her sixth album.

The podcast tells the inside story of one of the country's first internet celebrity pastors.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Maggy Krell, an ex-California state prosecutor, about her book, Taking Down Backpage: Fighting The World's Largest Sex Trafficker.