Peter O'Dowd

On a reporting trip, Here & Now's Chris Bentley and Peter O'Dowd traversed the Blues Trail in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

A public library in Ohio is celebrating the life of one of its most loyal patrons, a retired social worker named Dan Pelzer.

Jason Wade, a farmer in the Mississippi Delta, has a World War II-era biplane that he still takes flight in.

New research highlights indoor air quality can have a powerful impact on the health and development of babies and young children.

Hopkins continues to perform with the Zac Brown Band.

Kelly Ramsey’s first year as a hotshot wildland firefighter in California broke all kinds of records. In 2020, California was an inferno. Ten-thousand fires broke out across the state and turned more than four million acres to ash.

Escobedo says when she plays the old songs nowadays, it makes men cry because they remember how their fathers taught them, too.

Here & Now's Chris Bentley and Peter O'Dowd spent a week reporting on the Mississippi River.

On Thanksgiving Day, 2024, Anderson Jones had something to be grateful for. He finally made it home. Five years earlier, the sandbag levee protecting his family home failed, causing flood waters to submerge his home for months.

For more than 80 years, residents of Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater have been banking on a pumping project to protect their farms and homes from floods. The federal government is now ready to build it.