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In the 1980s, NPR looked to the film saga to help boost audience numbers. it bought the rights from George Lucas (for $1) and got the original Luke Skywalker. The result was an overwhelming success.

County Supervisor Ron Roberts succeeds Santee Councilman Jack Dale for a one-year term at the helm of the regional planning agency. He's the first county supervisor to hold the post.

Ebola's physical legacy doesn't end when a patient leaves the hospital. A follow-up of the small group of patients treated in the U.S. finds many experienced various symptoms for months.

Airs Friday, January 1, 2016 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

The first solo album from the former Distillers singer feels like a time capsule from the '90s — when powerful, not conventionally pretty vocals attained massive mainstream cultural capital.

A Senate investigation finds that Medicaid programs in 33 states spent more than $1 billion on the hepatitis C drug Solvaldi in a single year.

A new state law will allow parents or school officials to request that special needs classes be filmed.

The wave of mass shootings in the U.S. is renewing a debate over treating gun violence as a public health issue. Congress has stood in the way of federal funding for studying injuries and deaths.

Time was, the merrymaking season was also a time for mischief making.

After Paris and San Bernardino, reports of Islamophobia and attacks on mosques are on the rise, especially in the Dallas-Forth Worth area. One Muslim activist calls 2015 "a banner year for hatred."