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  • "Scripps Mercy Hospital" sign outside the Scripps Health hospital in Chula Vista, May 10, 2021.
    Huge increase in homeless hospital admissions raises recuperative care shortage concerns
    The number of homeless patients treated at Scripps Health's San Diego County hospitals is on track to double numbers from 2023.
  • People walk through the Little Italy Farmers Market on July 31, 2024.
    The impact of local farmers markets on the foodscape
    It's national farmers market week. We're taking you outside to farmer's markets and highlighting local efforts to prioritize food access and healthy neighborhoods.
  • End Nuclear Colonialism
    Event by North County Climate Change Alliance and Northern Arizona Climate Change Alliance Our Changing Climate Series - Please join us to hear from special guest speaker Leona Morgan (Diné, she/her). This event is being co-hosted by the Northern Arizona Climate Change Alliance (NAZCCA). https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEuc-mpqD8vGdF4F3z5Tbkogj-DPsGdp7ue?fbclid=IwY2xjawFsTNdleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHSz31GN4Qw6LXXHU-ZtyNTFJh2rayeYru4ZmVm3BwQMBSGT0ZmDjZAq5jg_aem_WajVSx__4qzbS0LdX6LHzg#/registration Our speaker will unpack the Diné history of nuclear colonialism, highlight why nuclear energy is not a solution to climate change, and make connections between New Mexico and Southern California regarding radioactive waste management. Leona Morgan (Diné, she/her) is a community organizer who has been fighting nuclear colonialism since 2007. The Albuquerque-based activist is a co-founder of Haul No!, an initiative to stop Energy Fuels' uranium mine near the Grand Canyon. She helped to successfully prevent a new uranium mining and processing project in Churchrock and Crownpoint, New Mexico. Leona grew up in Fort Defiance, Arizona, and attributes the health issues suffered by her family and others who live (or lived) near uranium sites to the resulting radioactive exposure and contamination. She is a graduate student at the University of New Mexico. There will be time for questions from the audience.
  • California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed the nation's first state-wide ban on single-use plastic bags. Here, mixed plastic items are seen at a recycling plant in Vernon, Calif., earlier this year.
    The impact of plastics and corporate responsibility
    The state of California is suing ExxonMobil, alleging the company created a pollution crisis.
  • San Diego City Attorney race explainer
    Meet the candidates and learn what's at stake with KPBS' Nov. 5, 2024 election guide for the San Diego City Attorney race.
  • D'Wayne Wiggins of Tony! Toni! Tone! poses for a portrait in New York on Sept. 27, 2023. He died Friday at age 64.
    D'Wayne Wiggins, founding member of the R&B group Tony! Toni! Tone!, has died at 64
    Wiggins died Friday morning after battling bladder cancer for over the past year, according to a statement released by his family on social media.
  • A worker manipulates a block of aluminum in a French smelter in 2022. President Trump has increased tariffs on imported aluminum from 10% to 25%, while also removing exceptions from tariffs on steel. Both metals are crucial raw materials for the automotive sector.
    Automakers brace for higher costs as steel and aluminum tariffs kick in
    Tariffs on steel and aluminum are increasing to 25% — not the 50% that President Trump had recently threatened, but high enough to be a headache for automakers.
  • January flood victim Michael Rios and his dog Maxie sitting on their hotel bed in National City, California on May 22, 2024.
    530 households affected by the January flooding are still in hotels
    San Diego County's Emergency Temporary Lodging program is set to end on June 21. More than 1,700 people are still staying in hotel rooms through the program.
  • The Trump administration's plans for mass firings are sparking protests and challenges in court. Here, supporters of the U.S. Agency for International Development join Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., outside USAID's headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 3 after Elon Musk, who oversees the Department of Government Efficiency, said he and President Trump would close the foreign assistance agency.
    How does the U.S. federal workforce compare with those in other countries?
    President Trump's administration has fired more than 20,000 federal workers. How does the federal workforce compare with those of other countries?
  • A security guard poses during a media tour of the Port Isabel Detention Center hosted by ICE in Los Fresnos, Texas in 2024. The Trump administration seeks to reopen family detention centers in the state.
    President Trump brings back practice of detaining families together
    President Trump also detained families during his first term in an effort to deter migration through the southern border.
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