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Last week I spoke of plans to attend Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion Show. I did. Here’s my review.

Major New Study: This War Taking Heavy Toll on Military Kids

San Diego’s primary election is a year away, but already, there are a half-dozen political heavyweights vying for the city’s top job.

Meteorologist Richard Somerville talks about the science and the politics of global warming.

Hands-on training and free classes are being offered for San Diegans who want jobs in the burgeoning bioenergy field.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was late for work in August 1945, in Hiroshima, Japan, when he saw an airplane drop a silvery speck into the air. He survived the bombing only to make his way to Nagasaki three days later...just as that city was bombed, too.

U-C-S-D Medical Center is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first kidney transplant in San Diego County. Doctors say the science of kidney transplants has greatly improved in recent years. KPBS

After years in the Middle East, NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro has started the next chapter of her reporting life in Brazil. From her base in Sao Paulo, she'll focus on the country's environmental wealth, efforts to curb crime and the preparation for the World Cup and Olympic Games.

Scientists have mapped out, for the first time, the underwater path that some petrochemicals took after gushing from BP's oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. It's an important new piece in a huge scientific puzzle.

Scientists for the first time have mapped a plume of oil compounds that gushed from BP's broken well, extending for at least 22 miles. It's an important new piece in a huge puzzle: Where did as much as half of the spilled oil go?