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Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Encore Sunday, May 24 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV and 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. A spectacular fossil graveyard reveals a 43-million-year-old whale that had four legs and could walk. Follow scientists as they search for new clues to how mammals moved from land into the sea to become the largest animals on Earth.

NBC journalist Antonia Hylton spent more than a decade piecing together the history of Maryland's first segregated asylum, where Black patients were forced into manual labor. Her new book is Madness.

Saturday, July 19, 2025 at 6 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Henry Louis Gates, Jr. uncovers the roots of comedians Bob Odenkirk and Iliza Shlesinger two very funny people whose family trees brim with dramatic stories, introducing them to relatives who took great risks to overcame enormous hardships.

The shooting in Monterey Park over the Lunar New Year weekend is serving yet another reminder of how random acts of mass violence can be. We talk about the impact mass violence has on mental health. The presence of a transgender woman in the women's locker room at the Santee YMCA has sparked national conservative media attention, and that of right wing extremists. Then, San Diego Gas and Electric customers are opening surprisingly high utility bills this month. We hear how some San Diegans are copping with the financial pain and what options there are to help. Finally, industry and government collect a lot of data about us. So much that states like California have placed some strict rules in data collection in the interest of privacy. But University of San Diego Law Professor Orly Lobel argues that, in many cases, we don't need less information about people. We need more to help create a just society.

Clean-up crews were working Sunday to clear streets of mud and debris so the city of San Diego can make necessary repairs following last week's storm.

Nearly two years after the Beijing Winter Olympics, an international sports tribunal says Russian Kamila Valieva "committed an anti-doping rule violation." The U.S. could now receive a gold medal.

UC San Diego’s Kimberly Prather is being honored by the National Academy of Sciences for her work in atmospheric chemistry. The honor recognized her efforts to understand aerosol particles and for her public guidance during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

California’s Department of Health Care Services created two, free mental health apps to help kids, teens and young adults to better manage their mental health.

A teacher at a public school near Houston has a secret classroom bookshelf largely made up of challenged titles. Many of the books deal with race, sex and gender.

A stranger, Asta Cadell (Deborra-Lee Furness) limps into an outback town on a crippled motorcycle. Trapped while she waits for repairs, Asta stays at the garage of Tim Curtis (Tony Barry). The outsider soon discovers that Tim’s young daughter Lizzie (Simone Buchanan) has been raped by a group of men. Some women are intimidated, others make excuses and the law looks the other way – but nothing ever changes. Attacked herself, Asta is drawn into the struggle of the town’s women for safety and dignity. Emboldened by her, Lizzie lays charges and all hell breaks loose. The women rise up, but resistance is never that easy or that simple. Director: Steve Jodrell | Runtime: 94 minutes | Year: 1988 | Rating: UR | Country: Australia | Language: English | Genre: Fiction, Action