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The California Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously Thursday to approve a funding mechanism for a wildfire fund. Utilities across the state can tap into it to help pay for wildfire damages.

Cal Fire is working to extinguish a brush fire that broke out Friday morning in Ramona and was moving at a moderate-to-fast pace, officials said.

Back when school was in person, eighth-grader Josh Secrett was always tired. Now, away from the bias he sometimes encountered in classrooms, he says, "I'm more energized. I want to do more things."

President Trump is awarding the nation's highest civilian honor to a lawmaker, who the White House claims "uncovered the greatest scandal in American history," even though that has no basis in fact.

A Utah community celebrates the removal of 10 million tons of toxic uranium tailings from the banks of the Colorado River.

A prolonged 21-year warming and drying trend is pushing the nation’s two largest reservoirs to record lows. For the first time this summer, the federal government will declare a shortage.

Concentrating is hard. Concentrating during a pandemic is even harder.

The country music icon, who is 75, shares a video of herself getting vaccinated in which she riffs off her hit song "Jolene" and urges those eligible to get their shots, too.

Today, we’re kicking off an ongoing series of episodes about border art. In this episode, we talk to a guy we're calling the godfather of border art. He's the guy who helped put border art on the map: Marcos Ramírez, a Tijuana artist most people know as “Erre.” Border art is art at the actual border fence, art about the border, and often times, it’s both. It feels weird to say that the U.S.-Mexico border wall inspires artists. Because mostly, it pisses them off. Not to lump all artists into one sweeping stereotype, but a lot of the work being made about the border is pretty heavy in its opposition to the fence and all it stands for. It’s protest art. Or art that wants to start a conversation about power, immigration or human rights.

A state official told KPBS that Poway’s storm drain and reservoir connections are not in compliance with state regulations and contributed to the contamination of the city’s water system. Poway residents remain under a boil-water order. In San Diego County, a new report commissioned by the American Civil Liberties Union shows black people are twice as likely to be stopped than white people. Law enforcement officials are disputing the data. And, one year after the shutdown of the San Ysidro border crossing, local leaders say ties between San Diego and Tijuana are stronger than ever. Plus, it’s the busiest time of year for Amazon and a new investigation uncovers widespread workplace safety violations at warehouses across the country. Also, we’ll take a closer look at how the Army is turning to video games to recruit members of Generation Z. And, what one environmental group is doing to tackle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.