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You may soon have a way to make your car a lowrider... sort of. A bill proposing the creation of a first-of-its-kind specialty lowrider license plate is advancing in the state Legislature.

Motorists speeding through Oakland beware. The city’s new speed cameras aren’t only recording you, they’re issuing thousands of tickets to violators every day.

Keeping a museum's temperature and humidity constant -- rain or shine, all year long -- takes a massive amount of energy, and it's expensive. But some museums have a solution.

The 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee champ shares what it takes to spell it right in 2026.

The phrase "bird watching" does not take in the full range of people who love searching for wild birds. We meet a few of the many visually impaired birders who use their ears.

The price of a gallon of gas is up well over a dollar from where it was a year ago and these swing voters are feeling it.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Heather Schneider of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden about the garden's efforts to conserve seeds of rare plants from Santa Rosa Island, where a wildfire just burned.

A U.S. Senate race in Texas is now set with the state's Attorney General Ken Paxton winning the GOP nomination in a primary runoff Tuesday. He'll face Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico.

A detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" has become too expensive to maintain and may soon close.

It Takes Two rapper Rob Base died at 59 after a battle with cancer. His music, made with his childhood friend DJ E-Z Rock, filled dancefloors.

A measles outbreak in Bangladesh is suspected to have killed more than 500 and sickened up to 60,000. Bangladesh was getting measles under control until a new government upended vaccination efforts.

Democrats are looking for a path to winning more Congressional seats in the future. One way may be to court more rural voters.