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Firefighters expected to get some help Wednesday from the weather as they battle an unusual late fall wildfire that has destroyed more than a dozen homes and forced about 100 people to flee the scenic Big Sur region overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

Fires, snowstorms, tornadoes, drought, floods, oil spills — 2011 had them all, and that made it a very good year for disaster declarations. Even as they bear the scars of those events, many communities are already showing signs of resurgence.

A new study shows rate of hospitalizations for valley fever, a potentially lethal but often misdiagnosed disease, has doubled over the past 12 years in California.

Breweries have been providing farmers with free or discounted grain to feed their animals for centuries. But a proposed FDA rule intended to make food safer could disrupt that relationship.

Airs Monday, September 9, 2013 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

The Asian citrus psyllid is a tiny bug that spreads a devastating tree disease. Pesticides can't always control it, so California farmers have turned to a different solution: another bug.

No. 13-ranked SDSU's Winston Shepard and Xavier Thames score 16 points each for the Aztecs (13-1, 2-0), who win their 12th straight game.

At the Hillwood Estate gardens in Washington, D.C., the new norm is: "Expect the unexpected." So says volunteer coordinator Bill Johnson, who has worked on property belonging to the heiress of the Post cereal fortune for 30 years.

Today's political polarization makes it seem harder than ever to tackle climate change. Republican Bob Dixson says the goals of going green aren't only for liberals. His town of Greensburg was hit by an unusually strong tornado, and now he's working on a White House task force to prepare communities like his.

President Obama is expected to announce a sweeping plan to address climate change this afternoon.