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"Infographic titled 'CSU Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act Audit.' It features a map of California CSU campuses, photos of Indigenous ancestors and baskets, and a data table showing the status of human remains and cultural items held by specific campuses as of 2024-2025."

Tribes want Cal State to return Native remains and artifacts. Here’s why it’s not so easy

Cal State campuses have mixed records in returning Native remains and artifacts to tribes. Campus officials say they are working diligently to follow legal mandates but the process can be arduous, especially for non-federally recognized tribes.

Students sit in teacher Hayden Pulis’ classroom at Hanford High School on April 27, 2026.

Training to be a teacher is expensive. These California programs can help

California has a persistent shortage of qualified teachers. New programs offer a solution, though they are still relatively small in scale.

The Port of San Diego Cruise Ship Terminal at the Embarcadero in downtown San Diego in this undated photo.

Trump administration deported cruise ship workers in child sexual abuse materials case, but did not prosecute them

Federal immigration officials said in statements Thursday that more than two dozen people arrested in April at the Port of San Diego were deported. Experts question why they weren’t charged in federal court.

The El Cajon Police Department headquarters on July 21, 2025, located in downtown El Cajon.

Records: El Cajon license plate data used in nationwide immigration searches

A KPBS investigation revealed that data collected by the El Cajon Police Department was used in immigration-related searches more than 550 times in 2025.

An image recorded on the Moon during the Apollo 12 mission in 1969 shows the shadows of astronauts, along with a highlighted area above the horizon showing "unidentified phenomena," according to the Defense Department.

UFO files spanning decades are released by Defense Department

Cold War reports of mysterious rotating saucers; recent sightings of metallic elliptical objects floating in mid-air. Those and other reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena or UAPs — the military's term for UFOs — are described in documents released Friday.

An image of a notice sent by Georgia Tech's information technology department warning users about the Canvas breach on Friday.

Canvas is back online, but questions — and final exam disruptions — linger

Some schools are warning users not to log back into Canvas yet, after a ransomware group claimed credit for a data breach. Half of North America's higher education institutions use the platform.

Construction on the state Capitol in Sacramento on April 29, 2024.

A look at the top candidates vying to be California’s controller

Republican Herb Morgan is challenging Democratic incumbent Malia Cohen for oversight of California’s spending.

Hippos wallow at a lagoon in the Hacienda Napoles Park, once the private estate of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, in Puerto Triunfo, Colombia.

Colombia's rogue hippos could find refuge in India

In Colombia, a plan to cull Pablo Escobar's invasive hippos is challenged by an Indian billionaire's offer to relocate dozens of the animals to India's wildlife reserve instead.

A collage of gift ideas featured in the KPBS Holiday Gift Guide, clockwise from left: bourbon vanilla extract, Verbatim Books, artwork by Mr. Mahaffey and the Digital Gym Cinema theater.

How to give the perfect gift that celebrates San Diego

KPBS has compiled a list of local gifts celebrating San Diego's art, food, culture and the outdoors. We talk about some of the greatest picks. Plus, a new book with 100 things to do in San Diego.

Contact tracing is the public health tool that keeps diseases contained. Health workers reach out to those individuals who were exposed to someone who has a contagious disease to monitor their health and to prevent further spread.

Contact tracing could be key in halting the spread of hantavirus. Here's how it works

More than two dozen passengers left the cruise ship before the outbreak was identified. The race is on to connect with them to monitor their health — and the health of those they've interacted with.

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