One year ago, pandas returned to the San Diego Zoo. To celebrate, the zoo released a limited-edition Panda Day commemorative pin on Friday, KPBS reporter Alexander Nguyen reports.
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California’s housing market is less affordable after mortgage interest rates drove up costs for many potential buyers last year. -
For nearly three years, an increase in federal aid has allowed California to issue higher-than-usual amounts in food stamps. That ends in April. -
This follows an analysis released in November that tried to explain why the city is so “woefully off pace” from meeting the housing demand. -
Local organizations like the House of Turkey in Balboa Park are helping to raise funds for disaster relief in Turkey and Syria. -
The Board of Supervisors Tuesday unanimously approved minimum wage requirements for traffic control workers on privately funded projects on San Diego County roads. -
County supervisors Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution to expand a free public transit ridership program for residents ages 18 to 24. -
A small California city that was overrun by visitors four years ago when heavy winter rains produced a spring “super bloom” of wild poppies has a message for the public after this year’s deluge: Do not come. You could be arrested. -
Communities, largely home to low-income Latino residents, still have dry wells. Restoring groundwater takes decades, with costly, long-term replenishment projects — and ultimately, much less pumping. -
First Lady Jill Biden told an Oceanside audience that she was proud of the U.S. military Saturday after U.S. jets shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast. -
Ongoing investigations and a county admissions freeze are still plaguing the nonprofit’s renowned rehab center.
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