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In her last Olympic season, US cross-country ski phenom Jessie Diggins looks stronger than ever

Jessie Diggins, age 34, helped break an Olympic medal drought for American cross-country skiers that dated back to the 1970s. In her final season, she enters the Milan Cortina Olympics on a winning streak and with new peace of mind.

Scientists at UC San Diego's Soil Health Center at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography are developing a probiotic designed to improve plant growth. They are testing it on several plants, including lettuce, at a Salk Institute Research greenhouse, as pictured here on March 6, 2026.

To restore soil, UCSD scientists are experimenting with probiotics for plants

At the new Soil Health Center at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, scientists are developing a probiotic that could give plants the microbes they need to grow healthier and stronger.

A now hiring sign sits by the sidewalk as a rider on a scooter passes in Garland, Texas, Monday, March 23, 2026.

It's a bad time to hunt for new jobs, most US workers say in new Gallup poll

A new Gallup survey finds that Americans’ outlook on the job market is increasingly pessimistic.

The Paradise Hills Native Garden is blooming with California poppies and other native plants and trees. The land beneath the garden was once a landfill. A grand opening is scheduled for April 18, 2026.

How Paradise Hills residents turned a former landfill into a native garden

The five-acre garden has been growing in phases. A grand opening is scheduled for April 18.

Imperial resident Kathia Olivas, a substitute teacher and community organizer, stands for a portrait at the planned site for a massive data center which would sit just blocks away from her parents' home in the small city of Imperial, California, on December 18, 2025. Olivas feels the developer and county officials haven't been transparent about their plans and fears the data center will place new stress on the land and local ecosystems. "This could have all been avoided if they had just been transparent with us," she said.

The plan to build a massive data center in Imperial County — without environmental review

As demand for computing power soars nationwide, a Southern California entrepreneur with past legal troubles is trying to speed forward an immense data center in Imperial County.

Sprinklers water a field on farmland near Salinas on Feb. 11, 2025.

How California lawmakers are trying to speed up spending on voter-approved climate projects

Assemblymember David Alvarez is pushing a proposal to get Prop. 4 dollars out the door faster more than a year after voters approved the state’s biggest climate bond to date.

Rajeshwari, 44, grades the chiles she has picked in the fields. Her sharp eyes spot the pale white pods in the sea of red: "The ones with the rich red color are the best, but even though the paler ones are of poorer quality, we can still sell these at the market."

Why nearly every farmer who grows these chile peppers is a woman

Chile peppers are a traditional part of Indian cuisine — and a key crop for women farmers. They say it's too demanding for men. "In spite of the challenges," says one, "we've found freedom."

San Diego weekend arts top picks: Protest art meets risograph, contemporary ballet and 'Urinetown'

This weekend in the arts in San Diego: Josh MacPhee's "Paper Politics" at Burn All Books "& Friends" gallery, Roman de Salvo's utilitarian-inspired sculptures and new contemporary ballet and a musical about public bathrooms.

Palm trees blow in the wind in the Golden Hill neighborhood of San Diego County, Calif. Dec. 9, 2021.

California walloped by winter storm with high winds and heavy rain and snow

California was walloped Monday by a powerful winter storm carrying treacherous thunderstorms, high winds and heavy snow in mountain areas.

How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart

We found the effects of tariffs and extreme weather, relief (finally!) in the egg cooler, plus one case of shrinkflation.

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