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A national outcry over conditions at an immigration detention center for children, San Diego mayoral candidates spar over plans for more housing, and election reforms are leading to more diversity in some local governments.

Thursdays, March 31 - April 28, 2022 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. The military-trained writer and photographer embarks on a rarely ventured route through the challenging environments and remote corners of a little-understood land — Arabia. In the process, he immerses himself in the region's cultures, revealing unique and powerful insights.

The first of two stories for the California Dream series explores the growth of the Latino middle class as children and grandchildren of immigrants come of age, and Latino median household incomes rising.

Recent trends in public sentiment run parallel to deteriorating U.S.-China relations. In China, the pandemic "increased people's satisfaction and support for their government," says a sociologist.

The Justice Department can't replace nine lawyers so late in the dispute over whether to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census without explaining why it's doing so, a judge says.

The Gilroy shooting has left California lawmakers wondering what more they can do to limit gun violence in the state. Also, efforts to have greener transportation and safe streets and walkways are in conflict as San Diego works to implement dockless scooter regulations, an explanation of SDG&E’s time-of-use plan, how the “invalid trade” helped build San Diego, the legal aid group Al Otro Lado reacts to the Trump administration's changing immigation policies, and a seismologist talks about how societies rebuild after natural disasters and how California is preparing for its own “Big One.”

Jan. 23 marks the one-year anniversary of the strict lockdown imposed on the first epicenter of COVID-19. Here's what residents have to say about their experience.

Police were out in force Monday issuing tickets to scooter riders. Plus, a southern white rhino has given birth to a baby boy by artificial insemination at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Also ahead on today’s podcast, UCSD Extension is testing a new way for students to pay for class and a new teen IdeaLab brings sound recording booths, 3D printers, state-of-the-art computers and virtual reality games to teens in Logan Heights.

Since 2016, journalist Yvonne Latty has been documenting her mother's journey with Alzheimer's. As part of a collaboration with Latino USA and Black Public Media, she brings us this intimate portrait.

Efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus are being hampered by the fact that many people don't believe it's real. "It's absolute garbage," said Craig Mann of Flathead County in northwest Montana.