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San Diego fire crews will be on high alert this week, as hot, dry offshore winds increase the risk of wildfires.

As would-be expats search for adventure and cheap living in their golden years, they need to know about the harsh realities of retiring abroad.

Animals are smarter than you think and our place in the world is not as secure as you might imagine. In fact, authors Karen Joy Fowler and Jeff VanderMeer say we're living on an alien planet.

Airs Monday, October 4, 2010 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

A place for San Diego's downtown homeless people to store their possessions is in desperate need of funding in order to remain open.

A gunman in a gas mask barged into a crowded Denver-area theater during a midnight showing of the new Batman movie Friday, hurled a gas canister and then opened fire, killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others in one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent U.S. history.

The state’s budget problems, mingled with a dose of optimism. That’s what Gov. Jerry Brown says his State of the State Address may sound like.

What makes an essential rock song? Music journalist Greil Marcus argues that it's not the stature of the performer, but the degree to which a song tells the story of rock 'n' roll itself.

"No substantive progress has been made." That's what House Speaker John Boehner had to say Thursday about efforts to avoid automatic spending cuts and tax increases at year's end.

Airs Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV