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The San Diego County Grand Jury says the region needs a single "Fire Commander " to coordinate the patchwork of fire fighting agencies. KPBS reporter Alison St John has more.

After Tuesday's results, many inside and outside Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign are no longer asking, "What now?" Instead, pundits, superdelegates and even her own aides say it's time to consider bowing out. Correction: in this story we identify former Senator and democratic presidential nominee George McGovern as a superdelegate. He is not a superdelegate. We regret the error.

What is the San Diego County Board of Supervisors doing to improve local wildfire preparedness? We speak to KPBS reporter Alison St. John about the supervisors’ decision to lease three firefighting a

In one of the city's poorest areas, residents who recycle trash by hand and a handful of environmental activists are slowly improving their community. Their efforts serve as an unlikely model for environmental change in an age of global warming.

Forbidden Kingdom

Japan's youngest post-war leader, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is resigning. His decision to step down after less than a year in office follows a humiliating electoral defeat for his party and a series of financial scandals involving members of his cabinet.

French people agree Chirac was an energetic and effective leader on the world stage, but indecisive and weak when it came to enacting reforms at home.

On Thursday, the San Diego San Diego County Fire Chiefs' Association and Fire Districts' Association unveiled a ten-point plan to create a more organized and effective regional fire system. Reporter H

RJ (voiced by Bruce Willis) is a savvy raccoon with a seemingly bottomless golf bag full of goodies. He may be a wild critter but he seems to have learned a lot about the materialistic consumerism of humans. As the film opens, he attempts to get junk food from the local park's vending machine. When he fails to satisfy his hunger, he turns to the goodies lying in the cave of a hibernating grizzly. But burly old Vincent (Nick Nolte) wakes just in time to witness the accidental destruction on all his winter goods'as well as his favorite red wagon and blue ice chest. RJ is naturally to blame and Vincent holds the rascally raccoon responsible for restocking the den. This prompts RJ to head towards a new housing complex that's just sprouted up on the edge of a tiny forest. Here RJ finds just the 'foragers' he'll need if he's to fill grizzly's order for junk food within the week timeframe he's been given. But Verne (the cautious turtle voiced by Gary Shandling) is suspicious both of RJ and of the ominous world of suburbia that lies just over the hedge.

San Diego's mayor elect, former police chief Jerry Sanders, chose to make the focus of his first press conference public safety and disaster preparedness. He also showed his support for the city's p