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This fire season is shaping up to be grueling. Drought has turned brush into kindling, and there are surprisingly few city workers to thin that fire-prone vegetation. As Rebecca Tolin reports, the ci

A strong Pacific storm is expected to arrive Thursday and continue through Saturday morning. This storm has the potential to produce weather rarely seen in Southern California in September. It’s esti

House and Senate negotiators went home for Christmas without a deal on the farm bill — including the food stamps on which millions rely. The bargaining has continued ever since. But Friday, a possible deal emerged.

Dry conditions in California the past two years are predicted to give way to more normal rainfall next year. But a state meteorologist says if those long range forecasts are wrong, a third dry year wo

Deadly rioting erupted this week in Haiti and Egypt, where food prices have soared amid rampant inflation. The G-7 met in Washington on Friday to address instability in the global economy, but analysts seem skeptical about how effective the organization will be at steadying inflation.

Almost 70 percent of all U.S. food aid goes to Africa, shipped on American-flagged vessels like the Maersk-Alabama, which was captured earlier this month by Somali pirates. Andrew Natsios, former administrator of the U.S Agency for International Development, the current distribution system of food aid is expensive, slow and vulnerable to pirates.

With just a few days to go before Inauguration Day, President-Elect Barack Obama must be having second thoughts about whether he really wants to be president given the monumental problems the world is facing. Who, in their wildest nightmares, could have predicted the economic meltdown the nation, and perhaps the entire globe, is experiencing? Just think! Our national debt is more than 10 trillion dollars and

An estimated 1 million wild camels roam the Australian outback, and their population is expected to double in a few years. Above-average rainfall in the desert has increased the vegetation available to the animals.

The economy is forcing many school districts to do more than just teach. They're having to take care of families. KPBS reporter Ana Tintocalis looked at how the region's skyrocketing unemployment and foreclosure rates are racking up a human cost.

The San Diego County Water Authority says conserving water this year is critical. The agency is worried that excessive outdoor watering will draw down reservoir water that will be needed next year. KP