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Investigator are trying to determine what caused a devastating warehouse fire in Charleston, S.C. Nine firefighters died Monday night when the roof of a furniture company collapsed.

Iran and other countries — not terrorist groups — are most likely to pose the next nuclear arms threat, author William Langewiesche says. Their goal: wield nuclear weapons for political power.

Work crews in Otay Mesa have begun sealing the longest and one of the most sophisticated tunnels ever discovered under the U.S.-Mexico border. Federal authorities will fill in this tunnel and seven others along the Southwest border. KPBS reporter Amy Isackson has the story.

Federal officials will fill in the longest tunnel ever discovered under the U.S.-Mexico border on Tuesday. Authorities say they'll plug that tunnel in Otay Mesa, and seven others by the end of the mon

San Diegans have grown up seeing dolphins and sea lions perform at Sea World, where they're trained to thrill audiences. But not so far away, at a Navy installation on Point Loma, the highly intellige

It all started last November, when a relatively small lender, Own-It Mortgage Solutions, defaulted on its loans to JP Morgan Chase. Since then, more than 24 subprime lenders have folded, victims of rising default rates — but also of rising suspicions that the entire subprime market is teetering.

Students from the Francis Parker School got their hands dirty today at the Miramar Landfill. As KPBS Environmental Reporter Ed Joyce tells us, the seventh graders were helping to restore a closed sect

The Seattle Biodiesel refinery started out in a little warehouse just a couple of years ago, making a few thousand gallons of eco-fuel a day for local buses. Now it has mushroomed, attracting hundreds of millions of dollars in investment and building a large plant.

In a southern Kazakh city, health-care workers are standing trial on charges of negligence. At least 95 infants tested positive for HIV after treatment at local children's hospitals. The case has exposed corruption in the country's medical system.

A huge electronics recycling plant in North San Diego County is using a new process that keeps harmful materials out of landfills. The new Vista warehouse is one of hundreds of locations in the state