9+ hour, 48+ min ago  (102+ words) Texas Public Radio | TPR As Mount Everest season opens, climber is 'concerned but confident' about reaching the summit Here & Now's Scott Tong speaks with American mountaineer Ryan Waters on Mount Everest and mountaineering journalist Angela Benavides about this year's climbing…...

7+ hour, 57+ min ago  (358+ words) Something is missing from much of North America's skies. A lot of birds have disappeared. Since 1970, the United States and Canada have lost an estimated 3 billion birds " nearly one in three birds across the continent. Grassland birds have been hit…...

4+ hour, 33+ min ago  (328+ words) With school choice programs ascendant not just in Iowa but across the U. S. , Cedar Rapids offers a preview of who wins and who loses when education meets the free market....

4+ hour, 31+ min ago  (30+ words) In Oakland, a case is getting underway in which Elon Musk and Sam Altman will face off over the future of Open AI, one of the world's most influential AI companies....

38+ min ago  (306+ words) The psychiatric hospital notified employees of layoffs looming in June....

14+ hour, 4+ min ago  (95+ words) Texas Public Radio | TPR How did political violence become so common? A man is charged after trying to attack President Trump at the White House Correspondents" Dinner. But experts say focusing on a single incident misses the bigger picture; threats…...

6+ hour, 37+ min ago  (313+ words) Bexar County Manager David Smith on Tuesday warned county commissioners the county could see historic low property tax revenues this year to fund county spending. Property taxes typically fund around 80% of the county's budget, which has weighed in near $3 billion…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (46+ words) 'Wherever Fiesta is, so is the Air Force band,' says 2nd Lt Drew Eary, who joined the Mission Winds as they performed live on KPAC 88. 3 FM. At the link, hear all about their free concerts for Fiesta, and see them perform…...

9+ hour, 9+ min ago  (205+ words) Gioachino Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville" is over 200 years old, but according to Fran'ois L'pez-Ferrer, who's conducting this week's production for Opera San Antonio, it has hardly aged thanks to its comedic take on authority, and social mobility. "Because…...

14+ hour, 34+ min ago  (173+ words) Texas Public Radio | TPR Classical Connections Live! presents Band of the West clarinets A new concert series themed to Classical Connections begins on Wednesday, May 13 at 7: 00 p. m. with "Classical Connections Live." The concert will be held at TPR's Mal" and Carlos…...