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Stream now with KPBS Passport! During a village's Hallowe'en party, a young girl boasts of having witnessed a murder from years before. No one believes her tale until her body is found later on in the evening, drowned in the apple-bobbing bucket. Novelist Ariadne Oliver calls in her old friend Poirot to investigate.

Longer life expectancies and lower fertility rates have led to rapidly aging populations in countries such as Germany, Italy and Spain. This will make it harder for Europe to get out of debt and, over the long haul, threatens economic growth.

A few stories about housing and transport

In 1971, William Peter Blatty told the spine-chilling story of a little girl who becomes possessed by a malevolent demon in Washington, D.C. It was called the The Exorcist — and it was only his first draft. Now, Blatty has revised and polished his landmark novel for its 40th-anniversary re-release.

Encore Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS TV. The program explores the region's history through the stories and personal artifacts of remarkable San Diegans. The 30-minute documentary features vignettes of seven men and women whose personal accounts create a unique narrative. Photographs, articles, recipes, archival film and audio recordings will give viewers a glimpse into the past.

The University of San Diego is vying for the title of America’s greenest college with the implementation of 5,000 solar panels.

The system Congress set up to clean up poisonous air pollution still leaves many communities exposed to risky concentrations of benzene, formaldehyde, mercury and many other hazardous chemicals.

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 9 pm. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! This is the remarkable story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust, disease — even death — for nearly a decade. Less well-known than those who sought refuge in California, typified by the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s "The Grapes of Wrath," the Dust Bowlers who stayed overcame an almost unbelievable series of calamities and disasters.

A San Diego researcher says La Niña may be partially to blame for the deadly tornado outbreak in the South and Midwest. More than 450 people have died in recent weeks from some of the largest and most powerful twisters on record.

Technologies like GPS and social media are posing new challenges to interpreting the Constitution's guarantees of privacy and free speech. Law professor and journalist Jeffrey Rosen says we're now in an era the Founding Fathers could never have imagined, in which private companies are determining the rules for what can be shared.