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I'll admit it. I miss the KPBS Auction. For those too new in town, or too young to remember the 1970s and 80s, Auction was an annual rite of spring, a drop-everything, suspend-the-schedule, week-long, every-evening on-air marathon to raise money for KPBS.

Employers stepped up job creation in April, expanding payrolls by 290,000 -- the most in four years and nearly twice what analysts had expected. The joblessness rate rose as people streamed back into the market looking for work, but as one expert put it, "When you look at the employment report from 20,000 feet, it's all good numbers."

As the "buy local" movement gains in popularity, the food distribution industry is facing an overhaul. Large food distributors are unwilling to swallow the extra cost and complexity of delivering local products. And smaller farms often lack the resources to make efficient large-scale deliveries.

Vietnamese-American and UCSD Professor Kimloan Hill talks about her experience in Saigon at the close of the Vietnam War.

A deal struck by European Union transportation ministers launched a few flights Monday and may permit more on Tuesday. But fresh ash from the eruption of a volcano in Iceland continues to complicate air travel conditions.

San Diego authorities say a package explosion at a FedEx warehouse appears to have been sparked by batteries and was not intentional. No one was hurt in the explosion.

The daily death toll in the Mexican drug war is staggering, and over this past weekend, in the border city of Juarez, one death in particular stood out: a Mexican federal police commander was ambushed and killed in broad daylight.

U.S. border patrol agents are training Mexican federal police in Nogales, Ariz., to fight drug cartels. One official says it's a critical step in securing both sides of the border, where drug-related violence has soared.

President Obama and top officials from 47 countries have gathered at an unprecedented global summit in Washington to forge a plan that would halt the spread of nuclear weapons and keep them out of the hands of terrorists — which he calls the single biggest threat to nuclear security.

President Obama and top officials from 47 countries began negotiations Monday at an unprecedented global summit in Washington to forge a comprehensive plan to halt the spread of nuclear weapons and keep them out of the hands of terrorists.