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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.

As San Diego County both braces and rejoices for much-needed rain, the threat of flash flooding prompts the Cleveland National Forest to close some forest roads until next week.

The San Diego County Water Authority Board is now planning to buy more water to increase local supplies. It's what the agency calls Stage 2 of its Drought Management Plan. KPBS reporter Ed Joyce tells

Airs Wednesdays, July 1 - 22, 2015 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Greenland has the world's highest suicide rate. And teen boys are at the highest risk.

More than 120 leaders are expected to attend the one-day summit sponsored by the United Nations. They have been instructed to arrive Tuesday with "bold ideas" to slow the rise in global temperatures.

Climate change in the West is luring rainbow trout to higher elevations, where the fish are mating with native cutthroats, genetic evidence shows. Biologists and anglers worry cutthroats could vanish.

Over the last 20 years, the number of sheep in the U.S. has plummeted by half. The sheep industry has actually been declining since the late 1940s, when it hit its peak.

The La Niña climate phenomenon has returned and that could be bad news for the drought-ravaged south central states.

The Carlsbad Desalination Plant, now more than 25 percent complete, is on track to begin operation in 2016. It is the largest seawater desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere.