Wildfires are common in California and can happen any time of year. A wildfire researcher at San Diego State University shares three ways to prepare.
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The stats are good news for a state that has seen terrifyingly destructive and deadly blazes the past two years, but the worst of those fires occurred in the fall. -
The zoo is currently undergoing a redesign of the Children's Zoo area of the park, located near the front entrance. -
Investigators believe that Fang Cheng, 30, killed his mother, Xiaoqun Fang, and father, Yi Cheng, in the couple's Torrey Highlands home and then took his own life by leaping off a freeway overpass in Sorrento Valley. -
The San Diego County Office of Emergency Services debuted the plan Wednesday. -
New California data shows insurance companies declined to renew nearly 350,000 home insurance policies in areas at high risk for wildfire since the state began collecting data in 2015. -
KPBS Midday EditionIn 2016, California became the first state in the nation to implement a red flag law. It allows family members or law enforcement to ask a judge to temporarily remove guns from individuals who may pose a threat to themselves or others. -
Trump said he worried about the potential risk of a "slippery slope," where "all of a sudden everything gets taken away." Just 11 days earlier he dismissed that very same "slippery slope" thinking, which he attributed to the National Rifle Association. "I don't agree with that," he said then. -
Prosecutors said that as an 18-year-old high school senior, the young man recruited fellow students from his school to strap drugs onto their bodies, then cross the border into the U.S. at either the San Ysidro or Otay Mesa Ports of Entry. -
KPBS Midday EditionIn July, an appeals court found that more than 4,000 illegal immigration convictions were improper. The decision to charge migrants under the wrong statute was prompted by the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe report by the San Diego District Attorney's Office found that 40% of the shootings involved a white officer and a non-white suspect.
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