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Writer Paul Auster explores his own intellectual and moral maturation in his new book Report from the Interior. It's his fifth book about his own life, but Auster says it's not himself he's interested in.

Scott Ellison here with the weekly FLW Fishing Report. Hopefully the weather will continue to moderate and it will be more comfortable to stay out on the…

Autumn has arrived and NPR's Brian Mann sends a postcard from a wilderness paddle into fall color.

At many newspapers, the top priority these days is how best to prop up revenues. But the family that owns The Anniston Star in Alabama is quietly planning to devote the paper's profits to training new generations of reporters.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear went live on Facebook early this afternoon to address the current weather system reportedly carrying the potential to be the…

By Scott Ellisonhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wkms/local-wkms-983629.mp3Murray, KY – Quality of fishing, not quantity in this week's…

The Labor Department on Friday reported the U.S. economy added 292,000 jobs in December, and the unemployment rate stayed at 5 percent. Wage growth continued to be weak, but 2016 should bring a boost.

Kentuckian Matthew Barzun is being considered for the U.S. ambassadorship to the United Kingdom, but to get the job he may have to step up his fashion game, Bloomberg.com is reporting. His competition: Vogue editor Anna Wintour. Barzun, a former executive for CNET and a longtime supporter of President Obama, served as U.S. ambassador to Sweden from 2009 to 2011. Barzun has also been suggested as a possible Democratic challenger in 2014 to U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell. Bloomberg said: Both Wintour and Barzun were among Obama’s biggest bundlers of donations in the campaign, with each raising more than $500,000 to help re-elect the president. Marc Lasry, the managing partner and founder of Avenue Capital Management, also wants the Paris embassy, said the people. Wintour was born in Britain but is now a U.S. citizen. She has edited American Vogue since 1988 and widely believed to be the basis for the callous editor in the book The Devil Wears Prada, which was later made into a film starring Meryl Streep. Wintour also was featured in the 2009 documentary The September Issue. And here's Barzun speaking this year at the TedxUofL conference: If selected, Barzun wouldn't be the first Kentuckian to serve as ambassador to the Court of St. James, as the post is called. Robert Worth Bingham -- of The Courier-Journal Binghams -- served in the 1930s between Andrew Mellon and Joseph P. Kennedy. More recently, in the George W. Bush administration, William Farish -- owner of the Land's End thoroughbred farm in Versailles, Ky. -- held the post.

Immigration is not rising inexorably, but instead mirrors the U.S. business cycle, rising and falling with U.S. demand for workers, a new report from the Pew Hispanic Center argues. Underlying the debate is a more fundamental question: Does immigration satisfy the needs of a healthy economy or undermine it?

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks New York Times reporter Jamie Tarabay, who's based in Sidney, about an alleged plot by a Chinese espionage ring to install an agent for Beijing in Australia's parliament.