Anticipating a hot and dry Fourth of July, the Newport city council voted this week to ban personal fireworks this summer.

NPR and the PBS series Frontline investigate the forces keeping communities from building resiliently, and the special interests that profit even when communities don't.

The odd-looking pre-historic paddlefish is threatened in many states. However, in some, like Minnesota, its numbers are growing. And local officials are tracking the fish's numbers and locations.