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The chalet fell to the Sprague Fire at Glacier National Park last week. NPR's Marc Silver remembers a strenuous, hours-long climb with his family to reach the building.

California's program to house people in motels in order to get them off the street during COVID is ending. But it's unclear where the more than 6,000 people living in these facilities are headed.

An air ambulance with six people aboard crashed and then exploded on Friday evening in Philadelphia. The medical transport plane was returning a patient and her mother to Mexico. Several houses caught on fire close to the crash site. Six people on the ground were taken to the hospital with injuries.

In 1994, more than 300 Republicans under the command of obstructionist and rabble-rouser Congressman Newt Gingrich stood outside the U.S. Capitol to sign the Contract with America and put bipartisanship on notice. Twenty-five years later, on January 6, 2021, a bloodthirsty mob incited by President Trump invaded the Capitol.Dana Milbank is a nationally syndicated op-ed columnist for the Washington Post. He has also been a contributor to CNN and MSNBC and is the author of several books. His new book is "The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party."

BraVa! is a fundraiser to support YWCA of the Greater Capital Region. Now in its 8th year – BraVa! provides new bras and binders to those in need. This year’s event will take place Thursday, November 9th from 6 - 8:30pm.To tell us more we welcome YWCA of the Greater Capital Region Executive Director Starletta Renée, Jamie Crouse, Director of Development and Marketing for the YWCA-GCR, and Marion Roach Smith, YWCA-GCR volunteer and co-creator of BraVa!

Artist, legal counterfeiter, and award winning author Jonathan Santlofer brings us "The Lost Van Gogh," a thriller of masterpieces, masterminds and the mysterious underbelly of the art world. It is a sequel to "The Last Mona Lisa." In "The Lost Van Gogh," Santlofer reintroduces readers to Luke Perone, hero of "The Last Mona Lisa," and a descendant of the man who stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. Jonathan will be at the Northshire bookstore, in Saratoga Springs, New York at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, January 17.

The new book “Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics” is by CNN Correspondent Elle Reeve. It is a sprawling, strange, but true journey into the weirdest depths of the internet and into the real-world rooms where extremists made their plans, celebrated their victories, and retreated after defeats. To reveal the forces behind the white nationalist march on Charlottesville and the Capital insurrection on January 6th.

On June 6, Tony and Grammy award winner Renée Elise Goldsberry’s debut studio album, “Who I Really Am,” was released via Borderlight Entertainment.The album coincides with the 10th anniversary of the Broadway phenom Hamilton, which saw Goldsberry win a Tony and Grammy award for originating the role of Angelica Schuyler. The album, “Who I Really Am,” blends genres in a deeply personal and sonically rich collection of songs.

Last month, public radio and television stations across the country learned Congress voted to eliminate all federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. CPB distributes federal money to more than 1,500 noncommercial TV and radio stations across the country.When we came to you to help us fill the gap of money lost – you rose to the occasion and pledged almost half the money we are expected to lose in just 6-hours. In your messages and calls, many of you also asked us how we can also support rural stations who do important work, and who face a steep climb to make up large cuts in federal funding.Today we focus on our friends at North Country Public Radio.

The artists retreat, Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY nurtures talent, offering superb working space and time for artists, an engaged audience for their work, and a vibrant hub where diverse ideas and voices converge to inspire innovation.Since the first group of guests arrived in 1926, more than 6,500 artists have come to Yaddo. Such sustained support has helped launch and sustain some of the most celebrated careers in the arts.Collectively, Yaddo artists have won 83 Pulitzer Prizes, 1 Nobel Prize, 13 Academy Awards, 71 Emmy Awards, 34 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowships, 71 National Book Awards, 500+ Guggenheim Fellowships, and 16 Tony Awards.