A lot of public radio reporting is telling difficult stories about challenging things that happen to other people. For NPR Life Kit host Marielle Segarra, a surprising breast cancer diagnosis a year ago was also a chance to get out the word about risk factors, treatment, and the latest science.

The holidays are on the horizon and with it, infectious disease season. Public health officials are hoping residents of the Northeast will get inoculated against the flu and COVID-19. We speak with Dr. Justin Chan, Director of Infection Prevention and Control at Bellevue Hospital Center.

On January 6, 2021, a lot of the people who stormed in the capitol in Washington were dressed like members of the military. But some of them were actually members of the military, too. A new NPR Embedded series called “A Good Guy” follows the case of one of them. We speak with NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman and producer Lauren Hodges.

Is there a difference between solitude and loneliness? That’s an essential question in the new book “Party Of One: Be Your Own Best Life Partner” from NPR’s Meghan Keane, the longtime producer and creator of NPR’s Life Kit.

The conclusions of a months-long investigation into a roiling culture war in Stamford, Vt.

The candidates running for Plattsburgh, New York mayor have debated as part of a Mountain Lake PBS broadcast. Democrat Wendell Hughes represents Area 8 in the Clinton County Legislature, which includes the south end of the city, and Republican Don Kasprzak served as mayor from 2004 to 2014. Mayor Chris Rosenquest is not running for a second four-year term. WAMC’s North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley was a panelist.

Wall Street profits increased more than 79 percent in the first of half of the year compared with the same period last year — and annual profits are expected to finish the year much stronger than 2023’s mark. That’s according to a new report from New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.