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Sterling K. Brown recommends taking it 'moment to moment,' on screen and in life

Brown won an Emmy for his portrayal of Christopher Darden in The People v. O.J. Simpson, and another for his role in This is Us. He now appears in the film American Fiction.

A bronze statue honoring hometown hero and hall-of-fame rodeo roper Ikua Purdy in Waimea, Hawaii. Someone has been quietly buying hundreds of acres of land — stirring worries, speculation and a lot of questions among the locals.

A tech billionaire is quietly buying up land in Hawaii. No one knows why

A mystery has been brewing in a small ranching town on Hawaii's Big Island. Word has it that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff bought the land, stirring worries about what he plans to do with it.

Hunter's Field Playground sits beneath the Claiborne Expressway in New Orleans on July 18, 2023. Opened nine years ago, the playground is one of the monitoring sites of a new EPA study on the health impacts of the expressway.

A New Orleans neighborhood confronts the racist legacy of a toxic stretch of highway

There's a new federal fund to address highways that cut through minority and low-income neighborhoods, like New Orleans' Claiborne Expressway. But should the noisy highway be upgraded, or moved away?

A 7-month-old child with diarrhea lies in a bed at a hospital in India. Oral rehydration salts are a cheap and effective treatment but are underused. A new study aims to find out why.

There's a cheap and effective way to treat childhood diarrhea. So why is it underused?

A new study seeks to find the reasons that health-care personnel avoid the easy treatment for this potentially life-threatening condition.

Karen King gathers a core sample from a mountain hemlock tree at Lassen National Volcanic Park in northern California. King is the lead author on a study that puts the 21st Western megadrought into historical context.

How bad is the Western megadrought? Scientists look at tree rings to find context from history

Dendrochronologists found that high temperatures in the 21st century make the current drought unprecedented compared to other dry periods around the Colorado River across the past 500 years.

Michael Whyte learns he's eligible to have his felony record sealed at Total Deliverance Worship Center on Friday, Jan. 19, 2024.

New expungement and arrest-sealing law lifts decades-old burdens

Changes to state law expand the sealing of criminal records to most felonies. KPBS followed one San Diegan through the process.

<em>Yellowstone</em>'s later seasons were filmed in Montana.

Hollywood strikes' economic impacts are hitting far beyond LA

The writers and actors strikes in Hollywood are affecting jobs across the U.S. The Motion Picture Association says film and TV productions employ more than 1.7 million people outside California.

Keyser, West Virginia, is going through an energy transition as wind turbines are built around the traditional coal mining area.

This is what happens when a wind farm comes to a coal town

Keyser in West Virginia represents a national shift in American energy production. And in a town that was defined by coal for generations, change can be difficult.

Members of California Faculty Association — the union representing some 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches across the 23- campus CSU system — strike at SDSU. San Diego, Calif. Jan. 22, 2024.

CSU faculty union begins five-day strike

The strike began at 8 a.m. Monday, with picket lines at all campuses, including San Diego State and Cal State San Marcos.

The enduring appeal of the 'Sex and the City' tutu

The white tulle skirt worn by Sarah Jessica Parker in the hit HBO TV series' opening credits has sold at auction for $52,000.

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