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Two members of Tijuana's Nortec Collective, Bostich and Fussible, have just released a new album called Tijuana Sound Machine. We talk with the band about the album and play some music.

Airs Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

This week, parts of the Santa Fe National Forest will be on fire. On purpose.

The debate continues over a hotly contested landfill proposed for North County's Gregory Canyon. We'll hear the latest details.

When Staci Freeman and her sister Jami Valentine first took in a child ravaged by war in Afghanistan last year, Arefa was a 6-year-old in Hello Kitty shoes, who quickly turned the daily routine of changing her head bandages into a counting game.

A 26-year-old woman from San Diego was among those wounded when armed gunmen attacked a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya.

Television will be all digital by February 2009, meaning part of the wireless spectrum is up for grabs. The FCC will begin auctioning off the 700 megahertz band of the spectrum this week.

Nearly 30 years after she made news with long-distance swims, Diana Nyad is back. She plans to retry a swim she first attempted in 1978 but couldn't finish. This time she has a team working with her and says she may be in better shape now than she was in her 20s.

As a child, author Koren Zailckas was an introvert with numbed emotions. When her fourth-grade teacher, "Mr. Cool," assigned the works of Edgar Allan Poe, she was horrified. Murder? Torture? How inappropriate! But the terrifying stories and poems transformed her: she says they scared her into life.

Barbara Kingsolver's new novel weaves together a story of personal awakening with larger themes of environmental stewardship and climate change. Heroine Dellarobia Turnbow's life begins to change when she sees a strange vision in the Appalachian hills — a lake seemingly afire.