The Garden Lady begins with a discussion about shrubs and trees that flower in the late summer and fall. We consider the Franklinia, blue mist shrub, and panicle hydrangeas. Callers ask a variety of questions including wondering about the ripening watermelons, pesto pizza, service berry trees with rust, and scale on houseplants.

The local news headlines of the week with our region's leading journalists.

It's late summer and fish are plentiful in local waters. Fishing from a public dock can be a great place to take young people to fish. You don't need fancy equipment of even much experience to have a good chance of catching little snapper bluefish, herring, black sea bass, scup, and pufferfish. Drop your line and see what comes up.

The true story of three friends who spend 28 hours in a struggle for their lives 25 miles from land.

There must be some good way to eat them, I started thinking, because historically people have always tended to use what’s available, and for centuries, wild black cherries have been both abundant and incredibly important here ecologically.

Four days after catastrophic floods wiped out villages along the Nepal-China border, thousands are still missing. Families look for answers but hear nothing.

NASA launched a telescope named after Nancy Grace Roman, the pioneering astronomer whose work helped make Hubble and generations of space telescopes possible.

A corn dog may look like lunch. But to an economist, the price is a bigger story about food prices and inflation.