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San Diego’s biotech and innovation industry faces the new year with rising competition from overseas.

Airs Friday, September 23, 2011 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

Airs Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

The sea-based component of the U.S. missile-defense system has proved effective at targeting and destroying ballistic missiles. The Navy is deploying this system on more of its cruisers and destroyers worldwide.

Review of Zohreh Ghahremani's book, Sky of Red Poppies

Airs Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge returned to Britain on Monday after charming Californians ranging from Hollywood household names to inner-city school children with their mix of youthful casualness and graceful glamour.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development's new secretary, Shaun Donovan, says he needs to prove that his agency, long blasted as mismanaged, can deliver on promises. That's key now that HUD is tasked with implementing the $75 billion housing rescue plan.

Attorney General Eric Holder told relatives of people who died in the Sept. 11 attacks that a preliminary criminal investigation into the allegations had been opened. But even if the hacking took place on U.S. soil, investigators could run into trouble with the statute of limitations.

The San Diego Police Officers Association and the city are filing paperwork in court today in a fight over whether the city can change the Deferred Retirement Option Program. KPBS reporter Katie Orr explains DROP allows city employees the begin receiving retirement payments before they stop working.