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The San Diego Unified School District welcomed students back to classrooms Monday with expanded Universal Transitional Kindergarten at 118 schools.

Calmer weather in Northern California helped firefighters battling a wildfire threatening thousands of mountain homes.

Ever since frontman Win Butler was accused of sexual misconduct by several people in 2022, Arcade Fire's hometown scene has struggled with how to respond.

Biden has pledged to quadruple the annual U.S. contribution to international climate aid to $11 billion. He has a long road to get there.

Experience an evening of palate pleasing tastes in Mission Hills, one of San Diego’s premiere dining destinations. Our restaurant owners, chefs, cheese mongers, baristas, bakers, and ice cream and popsicle makers will create preparations sure to captivate your taste buds. From international to local, twenty-five participating purveyors of delicious tastes, including long established and very new arrivals in Mission Hills, and even a recipient of the prestigious 2021 Michelin Plate award, will be featured at the 9th Annual Taste of Mission Hills happening on Wednesday, October 13 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Included in the price of each ticket is Old Town Trolley ticket holder transportation to within steps of each participating venue. The more than 5 mile taste route including West Lewis Street, Ft. Stockton Drive, Goldfinch Street, West Washington Street, Reynard Way and India Street, promises to make the 9th Annual Taste of Mission Hills the best ever! The trolley route and trolley stops are listed on the back of each ticket. Every fifteen minutes a trolley will pick up and drop off at designated trolley stops, marked with a red star on the route map. 2021 Taste of Mission Hills venues include: • Bar by Red Door • Cake – Your Local Bakery • Cardellino • Dixie Pops • El Indio • Farmers Bottega and more! Get tickets here! Advanced purchase: $30 (available until October 12 at 11:59 p.m.) Day-of-event purchase: $35 Follow our social media! 2021 Taste of Mission Hills on Facebook Mission Hills BID on Facebook Mission Hills BID on Instagram For more information, please visit the 9th Annual Taste of Mission Hills website or call (619) 559-9502.

Cal Fire shares what they’re facing in fire-prone areas of San Diego County, and what you should know to stay safe.

As a rare October rainstorm drenched Petco Park in the eighth inning, nobody at the packed downtown home of the San Diego Padres flinched.

NOTE: Extended through Jan. 8, 2022. The 2021 San Diego Art Prize recipients are Beliz Iristay, Panca, Hugo Crosthwaite and Perry Vasquez. To commemorate the prize, the recipients will show new work together in a group exhibition at Bread and salt gallery, opening Oct. 9 with a reception from 5-8 p.m. RELATED: Artist Beliz Iristay's 'Movable' Sense Of Home RELATED: Hugo Crosthwaite: A Life In (Stop) Motion RELATED: Panca's 'El Más Allá' Opens At The New Children's Museum RELATED: The California myth of artist Perry Vasquez Opening reception: Saturday, Oct. 9, 5-8 p.m. Bread and Salt gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. From the KPBS/Arts newsletter, Oct. 7, 2021: This weekend, the 2021 San Diego Art Prize exhibition opens at Bread and Salt in Logan Heights, with work from prize winners Panca, Hugo Crosthwaite, Perry Vásquez and Beliz Iristay. The prize has been around since 2006, dreamed up by the San Diego Visual Arts Network, primarily using a mentorship model with two outstanding emerging artists linked with two established artists to create work together. In 2020, the split between emerging and established was set aside, and the four finalists that year (Melissa Walter, Kaori Fukuyama, Alanna Airitam and Griselda Rosas) all agreed to share the honor rather than wait for one winner to be announced, setting the new precedent. I've been following each of the four 2021 artists, and my most recent feature is on Beliz Iristay, who calls Mexico, San Diego and Turkey home — read it here. You can also learn about the way Panca draws on myth and her Tijuana street art roots to invent her own disruptive, vivid and weird narratives. Or read about the way Crosthwaite plays with folklore in his murals and how he uses stop-motion animation to bring portraits, drawings — and his process — to life in my feature here. Artist Perry Vásquez is also having a big month — in addition to showing works in the Art Prize exhibition, he will also open a solo show at Sparks Gallery, "Oasis." All told, he'll be throwing some 75 to 80 works into the world this month alone. I'm especially fond of Vásquez's massive palm tree paintings, including some of them on fire (timely!). He told me that in painting these trees, they become almost sentient. "The format suggests a kind of human-type scale, the anthropomorphic quality. So I feel like I'm painting portraits. I feel like they're very individual," Vásquez said. Watch for my feature on his work next week. Each artist has been busy installing works at the gallery, including a mixture of new works and murals plus older faves we may have seen before. At Saturday's opening reception, stick around for a performance by The Color Forty Nine. —Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS Sign up for the KPBS/Arts newsletter here.

Iconic and beloved singer Vicente Fernández died on Sunday at 81. He sold more than 50 million albums, starred in dozens of films, won three Grammys, eight Latin Grammys, and left a musical legacy.

The three main greenhouse gases hit record high levels in the atmosphere last year, the U.N. weather agency said Wednesday, calling it an ominous sign.