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Students return to class today at San Diego Unified. Meanwhile, as our lives get more digitized, there’s a growing need for workers who know how to code. But often coding training is out of reach for people from disadvantaged backgrounds. One program in Escondido is looking to change that. Plus, the Seau family wants to ensure the 102-year-old amphitheater and nearby community center are preserved.

The 77-year-old man in a rural part of southwest Australia may have been keeping the wild kangaroo as a pet. It's reportedly the first fatal kangaroo attack in the country since 1936.

Infectious disease specialist Dr. Mark Sawyer joins us for an update on COVID in San Diego County. Plus, the board of supervisors approved beginning the process to allow people to legally sell food from their home kitchens here in San Diego County. Then, Governor Gavin Newsom has until October 10 to decide whether to sign a bill that softens production quotas for warehouse workers. And, a new generation of fans are being introduced to the tradition of lucha libre, Mexican wrestling, at events held at a Logan Heights brewery. Also, KPBS film critic Beth Accomando unpacks some of the layers of meaning in the reimagined “Candyman” movie by filmmaker Nia Da Costa. Lastly, the KPBS Summer Music series continues and this week features the San Diego-based experimental duo Skrapez, who make curious, creative and chaotic walls of sound.

The approval replaces the emergency use authorizations granted last December and could make it easier for employers, the military and universities to mandate vaccination.

Encore Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Since his landslide victory in 2018, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has rarely been out of the headlines, with his controversial views on gender, indigenous rights and the Amazon. Yet, despite the increasingly vocal demands for his impeachment, Bolsonaro continues to have millions of supporters, drawn to his straight-talking style and vision of a new Brazil.

Camp Roundup, a summer camp experience for fat women, was held for the first time this year in Newark, Ohio.

Over a decade after she ran for vice president and then resigned as Alaska governor, Palin is in both a special election for U.S. House on Tuesday and a primary for the full term starting next year.

Local K-12 schools and colleges begin the academic year with a return to campus amid the COVID-19 pandemic, prep sports including high school football begin play after having their seasons canceled last year, and a look at some of the seemingly solvable issues that have gone addressed in San Diego for decades.

After a pair of devastating hurricanes struck Puerto Rico five years apart, residents of the island have come to rely not on government agencies, but each other.

Some critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin have died over the years from murky circumstances, as NPR's Scott Simon points out following the death this week of a Russian oligarch.