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This weekend in the arts: Spreckels Organ Society plays a concert tribute to Ukraine; Jonny Alexander at Swish; 50 years of San Diego Dance Theater; Word Up! returns to The Old Globe; Nathan Hubbard pairs Dorothea Grossman poetry with sound; Space 4 Art open studios; and "Retelling/Recontar."

As ICU bed capacity drops to 0% in the Southern California region of the state, we look at how hospitals in San Diego and Imperial counties are doing. Plus, a Mexican-American teenager comes to terms with her immigrant grandparents’ support of Donald Trump in this final installment of Every 30 Seconds. Finally, our picks for weekend arts events include jazz, a literary story concert and an updated spin on a Tchaikovsky classic.

CVS pharmacists have begun vaccinating California nursing home residents as part of a plan to inoculate 700,000 long term care patients. Plus, how the COVID-19 stimulus bill will impact your finances. And a story of how a mother of two austic boys launched her career in special education teaching. Then, bike advocates say new public policy is needed to ensure the drop in cyclist injuries during the pandemic stays that way. Plus, a “hotel of healing” is planned for Escondido to help the homeless population. And how San Diego women fought for the right to vote a century ago. Finally, Beth Accomado speaks to actor Matt Berry who plays an “energy vampire” on FX Series "What We Do in the Shadows."

Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott called it a "gut wrenching tragedy" for the city, the fire department and the firefighters' families.

For years, Friendship Park, on the US-Mexico border, has connected communities in the two countries through good times and bad. In the coming months, Border Patrol plans to replace the border wall on the site, drastically altering the park’s landscape.

Hospitals across California have all but run out of intensive care beds for COVID-19 patients, ambulances are backing up outside emergency rooms, and tents for triaging the sick have been erected in hospital parking lots.. Meanwhile, a judge’s ruling that strip clubs and restaurants can stay open during the pandemic and despite the surge prompts a reaction from San Diego’s newly inaugurated Mayor Todd Gloria. Also, only one company has bid for the franchise agreement to provide San Diego gas and electricity for the next two decades.

As cases of COVID-19 increase around California and the country, people of color continue to bear the burden of the virus. But Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiians have the highest prevalence of the disease.

A new book by two former Encinitas city officials explains what you need to know to make change. The book is called "Potholes, Parks, and Politics: A guide to getting things done locally (without having to run for office yourself).”

Under an order from President Biden, the Pentagon is deploying a thousand troops to help hospitals that are experiencing a surge in patients and have a lot of employees out sick.

Tensions between the U.S. and Russia over Ukraine seem to have ratcheted up.