Letters to My Father in Prison, Sounds of My Father, A Father’s Day Haircut With a Weed-Whacker

Today we’ll meet six seniors: a student, a volunteer, a farmer, someone looking for a job, a woman about town, and man whose daughter is his caretaker.

Video Store Survives Netflix, Last Roller Rink Organist, Typewriter Poet, Fleetwood Macrame, Ferris Bueller Revisited

When Your Abuser Is a Cop, He Designs Products With His Ears, Sounds of My Father

How Water Shaped the California Dream; This Boom Town Boomed Best When You Boomed With It; An Advice Show for POCs; A Surprising Beauty Queen

Faith in Her Child Despite What the Docs Said, Dominatrix Mom, Mothering in the Shadow of Big Oil, A Song for Grandma

Pregnant at 15, Pressured to be Polite, Always Tired, Embracing 'Body Positivity', 'My Natural Hair Journey', Living In Two Worlds, Cooking With Kenny

Fortune Cookie Mystery, Blind in California, Sexual Assault in Yoga, Shooting for a College Degree

Navigating High School as a Deaf 16-Year-Old; My Sister Can’t Speak, But She Makes Herself Heard; What It Means to ‘Edit Out’ a Disability; Ski School for All

For many Californians, their only reference point for the Coachella Valley is the annual music festival which kicks off this week. But there are other sides to Coachella — the ones locals see.

Methamphetamine is back in California. This time around, it's sending more and more people to the hospital, to rehab and to the morgue. Learn about one woman's two-decade battle with meth, from when biker gangs helped the drug take root in California t...

It’s one of the biggest police corruption scandals in modern California history, and one you probably didn’t hear about if you live outside the Central Valley. And it wasn’t an isolated incident.

Persian New Year from Afar; Remembering the King of Surf Guitar; Golden State Plate: Santa Maria BBQ; Letter to my California Dreamer: Palo Alto in the '70s

How a Janitor Invented a Bestselling Junk Food; Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti turns 100; Artists Reimagine 'Valley Girl'; A Letter From Charles Schulz, 50 years later

Reuniting with Mom (and missing Grandma); High School at age 20?; Kids send Postcards to other Kids in Detention; Conditions for Migrant Kids in Custody; From England’s Green Hills to California’s Deserts

Most wildfires ignite by accident. But some are set on purpose - and arsonists are very hard to catch. We find out how investigators caught one of them. It took two years and dozens of people to track him down.

When Black Farmworkers Picked California's Crops; Letter to My Dust Bowl Grandparents; When Bakersfield was the Center of the Country Music Universe

Living With the Ex; Genetically Sensitive to Rejection?; Stories of Last Kisses; Listeners' Favorite Breakup Songs

93-Year-Old DJ Still Connects Lovers Over the Airwaves, Cold Water Romance, Love Worth Fighting For

Spike in Homeless Kids on Central Coast; Busting Homeless Myths; A Letter to A Revolutionary Dreamer; What Makes Your Salad Taste Like California?

Golden State Plate: The Story of Pisco Punch; Trans Trucker Finds his California Dream; A Mom’s Journey to Accepting Her Transgender Child, At Age 4; California Therapists Volunteer To Help Immigrants Coming out of Detention

The Evolution of Casa Sanchez, Prather Ranch Cows, Frank Fat's Restaurant, Taxi Medallions Take Toll, Letter to My CA Dreamer

Ten years after an unarmed black man was shot and killed by a white police officer as he lay face-down on a train platform, we explore how Oscar Grant’s death galvanized a new generation of activists, and helped spark a sustained call for change.

Hear some of the most appetizing stories from our Golden State Plate series, where we explore the history of some of the iconic food and drink born right here.

A jailhouse songwriter's deep friendship with Johnny Cash. How a crusading heroine became a demon in Victorian San Francisco. LuPaulette Taylor on her nearly five-decade career at a West Oakland school. Two teens from Menlo-Atherton High on their child...