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Officials with the California Geological Survey say they hope a new seismic map that includes more than 50 new fault lines discovered over the last two decades will improve construction and earthquake preparedness.

The San Diego Unified Board of Education will consider today how much it would tax district residents in order to offset several years of state budget cuts. It’s part of a plan for a new parcel tax.

It’s not uncommon or illegal for doctors to accept money from drug companies. But is it ethical? And, do you as a patient want to know about it?

Floating through space right now is a golden record carrying sounds of Earth: a mother's first words to her baby, the sound of a kiss, and music from all over the world. Ann Druyan helped to create the NASA project as a guide to Earth for aliens. And like any good mix tape — interstellar or not — it led to the man of her dreams.

We discuss what this setback will mean for San Diego-based Arena Pharmaceuticals.

San Francisco's subway shut off cellphone service to thwart protesters, inciting a legal controversy. First Amendment scholars say they can't remember a time when a public agency in the U.S. moved to disrupt wireless traffic in quite that way, while Bay Area Rapid Transit officials say they had to protect riders' safety.

For more than 100 years, Californians have embraced the idea that if you don’t like the way state laws work, go out and write some of your own.

This week federal investigators are preparing to hold hearings into the cause of the fatal blast in San Bruno, Calif., last September. Preliminary reports from federal investigators cast blame on defective welds in a 60-year-old pipeline.

Airs Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Negotiations continue over what to do about redevelopment in California. Specifically, Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to dissolve local redevelopment agencies and use the freed up property tax dollars elsewhere.