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The IRS is delaying the 2020 tax filing deadline until May 17. How will provisions in the latest stimulus bill will affect your taxes? Plus, Moderna has begun testing its COVID-19 vaccine in children under 12, another step to getting everyone protected. Then, San Diego’s freeways and public transportation were empty in the early days of the pandemic. Traffic and transit ridership are now recovering, but will they ever come back all the way? And, Carlsbad’s GenMark Diagnostics, developer of rapid COVID-19 testing kits, was sold for $1.8 billion — a testament to the San Diego region’s biotech industry innovation during the pandemic. Also, the controversy over how to safely move millions of pounds of nuclear waste from the shuttered San Onofre power plant is back in the headlines. And, efforts to improve the environment around the Salton Sea were widely expected to begin at Red Hill Bay in 2015 but the project remains undone. Finally, KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando speaks with Turner Classic Movies host Eddie Muller about contextualizing classic films that might be problematic and often downright offensive for contemporary audiences.

The pandemic has had a profound impact on how San Diegans get around. Now city planners are figuring out what lessons can be applied to the future of transportation in the county. Meanwhile, local reaction to the shootings in Atlanta. Plus, efforts to restore Red Hill Bay at the Salton Sea were supposed to begin in 2015 -- but the project never got off the ground and now local officials are in a tussle with air quality regulators.

Leaders in the global group Girl Up went to their annual conference — virtually — last week. We interviewed some of the attendees to see what's changed during the coronavirus crisis.

Proposed new emergency preparedness rules would allow nuclear plants closer to where people live. Companies say the plants are safer, but they need the rule changes for a viable business model.

Community advocates plan to pack a Port of San Diego meeting Tuesday, in an effort to keep a port renovation project from generating more pollution in Barrio Logan.

We visit the third annual Los Dells Festival in central Wisconsin, featuring Café Tacvba, Salt Cathedral, Ximena Sarinaña and Natalia Lafourcade.

A new poll suggests voters might be willing to support charging homeowners for trash collection if they get free replacement bins.

While the region has recovered somewhat from those closure orders, the 13.3% figure SANDAG reported Thursday is still 2.5 points higher than at the height of the Great Recession in 2009-10.

The organization's reaction to North Carolina's 2016 "bathroom bill" has had a lasting impact, causing lawmakers to wonder if they'll lose lucrative sporting events.

The city of Chula Vista said the statue was removed due to public safety concerns. There had been calls on social media for its removal.