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As we say goodbye to 2024, let's also bid farewell to some less-than-ideal money habits: impulse purchases, out-of-control credit card debt and the trap of lifestyle creep.

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world's oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116.

As part of KALW’s week of discussions about racial justice, we’re featuring The Stoop podcast, hosted by Hana Baba and Leila Day. In this episode, we meet people around the Bay Area working for racial justice in their own ways. From reparations to health to literature, and even food, we hear from folks fighting injustice in all its forms.

A U.S. Court of Appeals this week ruled that the FCC did not have legal authority to revive the so-called net neutrality rules that were first introduced a decade ago under the Obama Administration.

Flamenco performer Carolina Lugo recently died and to honor her legacy here in the Bay Area, we're revisiting this conversation with her and her daughter…

Alec Scott lives in Oakland. His book, Oldest San Francisco is about the oldest, this, that and the other thing in San Francisco.

Tonight, on your legal rights: we again discuss elections, voting, and, after you cast your votes, just what happens to them.What we are doing right, just what are we doing wrong, and is there a path to fix it?YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, and tonight's co-host, Brent Turner, are joined by Chris Jerdonek, Vice-President of the San Francisco Election Commission, and Patrick Jones is the District Four Supervisor and Chair of the Board Of Supervisors Of Shasta County.Questions for Jeff, Brent and their guests? Please call, toll-free, at (866) 798-8255.

In his new book, "How Not to Age," Dr. Michael Greger says in the United States, the number one risk factor for dying is the American diet.

Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old Green Beret from Colorado, also wrote in a note that he needed to "cleanse my mind" of the lives lost of people he knew and "the burden of the lives I took."

Bollards meant to close roads off to cars have been an issue in New Orleans for years. Why did officials ignore this for so long, and what more could be done to keep crowds there safe?

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Alison Sider. The Department of Transportation has fined JetBlue for "chronically delayed" flight performance.

The humble ZIP Code shows up in all kinds of surprising places. Planet Money looks at how it was born, how it transformed the mail and talks to one researcher who argues that it's gone too far.