Across the United States, a quiet backlog of home repairs is building up behind closed doors, from leaky roofs to aging furnaces that owners keep promising to “get to next year.” What looks like ...

Many Boomers grew up learning how to fix, cook, build, and manage things themselves because there was no easy alternative.

KQED photographers spent the year capturing the biggest stories affecting the Bay Area and California. Here’s a collection of some of the highlights.