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Ladders are erected beside the apartment building where a fire occurred in the Bronx in New York City last month, killing 17 people and injuring dozens.

Amid a housing crisis, renters challenge firms they say are being exploitative

Low-income housing is in crisis — corporate landlords are squeezing renters with higher rents in often unsafe housing units. Renters are fighting back

If the Department of Justice decides to pursue a prosecution in the case, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows could face up a year in jail for each count of contempt of Congress.

The House votes to hold Mark Meadows in contempt, sending a criminal referral to DOJ

The vote now leaves it up to the Justice Department to decide whether it will pursue criminal charges against the former White House chief of staff.

Khea Pollard, director of San Diego for Every Child, speaks at a press conference, Dec. 3, 2021.

Guaranteed income project secures $1.4M from state, will begin in January

Two members of San Diego's statehouse delegation revealed details Friday of a $1.4 million program to support the region's first guaranteed income project.

"A Group of Artists and Academics at the OXCART Crash Site, near Wendover, Utah, August 2012 (raw umber and deep grey-blue with orange glow-in-the-dark glitter blisters)," by John Brinton Hogan will be on view at San Diego Art Institute as part of the SD Practice exhibition, opening July 10, 2021.

San Diego Weekend Arts Events: SD Practice, Ghost Light Masquerade, Cristóbal Gracia, 'Soft Plans' And High Tea

New civic art at Bread & Salt and San Diego Art Institute, The Rosin Box's live, haunting dance, hot sauce art at Best Practice, music video night at Ken Club and an outdoor music, art and food gala.

A spiral of dead bark hangs off a sickened acacia branch. California's climate change-fueled drought and opportunistic fungi weakened the tree. "We have never seen the sort of mass mortality that we're seeing now," Igor Lacan says of the acacias.

Climate Change Is Killing Trees And Causing Power Outages

Fungi, parasites, root rot: Climate change is increasing the risk of trees weakening and dying. Falling trees have increased power outages nationwide, which threaten public health and safety.

Robert Lee Johnson in his old neighborhood in Compton. Johnson remembers moving in one day in 1961. "I see moving vans, trucks and everything all down the street," he says. Johnson was 5 years old at the time, so he says he thought "it was moving day for everybody." And he noticed that all the other families moving in were were Black, too.

Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership

Owning a home is a part of the American dream. It's also the key to building intergenerational wealth. But Black Americans continue to face discrimination in housing, including through higher costs.

FINDING YOUR ROOTS: Children of Exile

Encore Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 22 at 6 p.m. on KPBS TV + Friday, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On Demand. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. retraces the ancestral journeys of David Chang and Raul Esparza, whose families fled their homelands, leading them to find lost parts of themselves along the way.

After two student suicides over one October weekend, UNC students created a makeshift memorial on the Chapel Hill campus. To reduce the risk of suicide contagion, any memorial sites or activities should be limited, experts say, and should not glorify, vilify or stigmatize the deceased student or their death.

Colleges are turning to science to limit suicide contagion and help heal campuses

The new strategy is called "postvention." It means having a plan built on truth, compassion and counseling that quickly addresses the mental health needs of friends and classmates after a suicide.

FINDING YOUR ROOTS: Hidden in the Genes

Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps Rebecca Hall and Lee Daniels solve family mysteries through DNA detective work, illuminating both history and their own identities.

Students wait in line to cast their ballot at a polling station on the campus of the University of California, Irvine, on Nov. 6, 2018.

Young Americans are raising alarms about the state of U.S. democracy in a new poll

A poll by the Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics found that a majority of young people believe that American democracy is either "in trouble" or "failed."

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