The Garden Lady starts the program with information about Christmas and Thanksgiving Cactus, and bringing Amaryllis back indoors. She talks with lilac expert Jack Alexander about a leaf fungus on lilacs, and takes listeners' calls about getting a Poinsettia to color up again, moving peonies, growing garlic in buckets, rooting annual cuttings and more.

A rundown of the week's headlines with our region's leading journalists.

This week on the Fishing News, CAI's John Basile talks with Kevin Blinkoff of On the Water magazine about the effects of the late September storm on Striper Fest and the fall migration of striped bass.

How our approach to protecting water quality has evolved over the past 50 years, and what steps we’ll need to take in the future as we balance the needs of housing and development with a healthy ecosystem.

Texture-wise, the fish was phenomenal. There was no “fishiness” at all. It had a delicate sweetness, like what you get at a sushi restaurant. It left a little aftertaste of ocean brine, like you walked into a seafood shop.

Sophia Dasser, editor-in-chief at The Cornell Daily Sun, talks with NPR's Juana Summers about an alleged 2024 gang rape at Cornell and the campus fallout.

U.S. health and development aid to many countries may soon fall off a cliff. At the end of the U.S.'s fiscal year, more than $1 billion allocated for aid remains unspent by the Trump administration.

The Senate is expected to pass the Protect College Sports Act to allow the NCAA to reinstate limits on athlete transfers and eligibility, opponents say it doesn't do enough to address rising spending.