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Last year "marked the warmest year on record for the contiguous United States," the National Climatic Data Center just confirmed.

How dirty is the air we breath and the water we drink?

Despite recent rains, Southern California is critically low on water. Officials are encouraging residents to begin conservation now. KPBS reporter Ed Joyce explains the situation.

The last couple of years have certainly felt unusually hot in many parts of the U.S., but are they really all that unusual?

A trial beginning Tuesday in San Francisco will test the San Diego County Water Authority's claim that the region's 3.1 million residents are subsidizing nearly all the rest of Southern California.

Gas prices are down more than 7 percent from last year. Grocery costs haven't budged lately. And -- just in time for Halloween -- the price of candy is down 2.3 percent from last year, according to the government's consumer price index released Wednesday.

A drought has been lingering in the Great Plains for six years. A federal meteorologist calls it the third-worst U.S. drought on record. Farmers in some parts of the country have endured Dust Bowl-like conditions this summer.

The first heavy rains of the season fell two weeks ago at Salt Point State Park, on the northern California coast, and now ranger Todd Farcau is waiting anxiously for the forest floor to erupt with mushrooms.

San Diegans have adjusted to mandatory water conservation during recent drought years. Now there is a way to save money and conserve water.

San Diego farmers are facing a triple threat: rainfall is three inches below average, water prices have skyrocketed, and the state’s snowpack is 52 percent of normal.