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Army Specialist Shoshana Johnson was traveling in a convoy in Iraq in 2003 when her vehicle was attacked. Iraqi forces killed 11 soldiers in her company and captured six, including Johnson. She was held for 22 days, becoming the first Black female prisoner of war in American history.

Firefighters are battling a fast-moving brush fire that broke out Saturday when it burned about 500 acres in a single hour in the Japatul Valley area near Alpine. Also, a protester is charged with 19 felony counts after allegedly spraying officers with pepper spray during a protest on Aug. 28. Police say Denzel Draughn is a flight risk, but his lawyer and fellow protesters saybail of 3 quarter million dollars is meant as a form of retaliation. Plus, a recent audit of SANDAG alleges hundreds of thousands of dollars in improper payments to high-level employees.

KPBS and Film Consortium San Diego are announcing the launch of Film Consortium TV, a channel featuring local and independently produced content on the public television affiliate’s streaming platforms. Film Consortium TV is available to stream for free from any smart TV or device via the PBS Video app and online at video.kpbs.org.

This episode first aired in April 2019. According to the federal government, about 90,000 people cross legally through the San Ysidro Port of Entry every single day. Among those daily crossers are the hundreds of students who live in Tijuana, but get their education in San Diego. The international trek to school is long and annoying. But it can also be traumatic. Today, a story about students who cross the international border for their education, and a teacher who’s trying to better understand them. Only here can you find students navigating one of the busiest border crossing in the world just to get to school.

The Health Care and Essential Workers Protection Act would mandate the state to have a three-month supply of clean personal protective equipment for healthcare and essential workers. Plus, Record heat hits the ocean near San Diego's Scripps Pier. And, a group called Friends of Friendship Park, has launched a new campaign- Build That Park- that is advocating for the construction of a binational park between the US and Mexico.

On several street corners around the Tokyo Olympic media press center and at several venues, you find people shooting pictures. Not of the athletes or journalists, but of the buses they ride in.

Students at California State University, the nation’s largest four-year public university system, will need to take an ethic studies course to graduate under a bill signed Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

This guide is part of our Older and Overlooked series on the danger wildfires pose to California's older population, especially during COVID-19.

Non-tenured professors, lecturers and some other faculty members at the nine University of California campuses are planning a walkout Wednesday and Thursday.

Social Democratic politician Olaf Scholz takes over from center-right Angela Merkel as chancellor to lead a coalition of three different parties in government.