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There's a new minimum wage for anyone working in San Diego, a proposal to divide California into six states with unimaginative names, mandatory water restrictions for us all and a celebration of LGBT Pride for everyone.

The deaths of 19 firefighters near Yarnell, Ariz., this summer have focused a lot of attention on just how bad wildfire has become in the West. And research predicts the situation is going to get worse.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will decide whether to list the greater sage grouse as endangered. Many groups, including some oil and gas firms and a conservation group, don't want that to happen.

The president knows he was once regarded as having limitless promise, and realizes as well how disappointed many of his acolytes have been.

The annual San Diego Bird Festival, now in its 18th year, is called the "Superbowl of Ornithology."

It used to be almost unheard of for people served by public water systems to dig wells in their yards. But as public systems impose watering restrictions because of drought, private irrigation wells are becoming more common — especially in wealthy neighborhoods.

Climate skeptics point to 15 years of no warming trend as a reason to doubt global warming. But Kevin Trenberth at the National Center for Atmospheric Research can explain a good bit of that temperature plateau — and he argues the Earth has continued to warm appreciably, even though our thin blanket of atmosphere hasn't.

At last check there were 21 fires burning in the western United States, charring more than 360,000 acres.

The 27th annual Border Legislators Conference will open by commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Chamizal Treaty, a binational agreement that settled a longtime territorial dispute at the border.

Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sunday, Sept. 11 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2 / not available on demand. In August 1910, a massive wildfire swept across the Northern Rockies, devouring more than three million acres in 36 hours. The catastrophe would define the fledgling U.S. Forest Service and the nation's fire policy for much of the 20th century.