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For Americans, Mexico can sometimes come across as a hopelessly disorderly. But sometimes opportunity hides within dysfunction.

This story comes to us from Harvest Public Media, a public radio reporting project that focuses on agriculture and food production issues.You can see more photos and hear more audio from the series here. Wednesday, we'll have a story from a meatpacking plant in Garden City, Kan., which takes a proactive stance toward its newest immigrants.

Ella Peters, a seventh-grader at Notre Dame Academy in Carmel Valley, will represent San Diego County in the national spelling bee in May.

Thursday's stormy weather produced the most vibrant rainbow in La Mesa.

An ad for a skin lightening pill has called attention to bias against dark skin in many countries. NPR contributor Wilbur Sargunaraj has a new video on the topic: 'Mirror Mirror.'

An ad for a skin lightening pill has called attention to bias against dark skin in many countries. NPR contributor Wilbur Sargunaraj has a new video on the topic: 'Mirror Mirror.'

Author Kij Johnson's first short story collection mixes straightforward realism with lyrical science fiction and fantasy. Reviewer Alan Cheuse says the stories bring to mind the work of Ursula Le Guin, and have the power to highlight the marvelous aspects of everyday life.

A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph.

In Master of the Mountain, historian Henry Wiencek uses an explosive interpretation of evidence to show how, by the 1780s, Founding Father and slave owner Thomas Jefferson had gone from championing equality to rationalizing an abomination.

Airs Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 6 p.m. on KPBS TV