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Pastor Morgan Schmidt said she hopes more local groups will use Facebook to organize neighbor care.

In Oregon, Neighbors Use Social Media To Offer — And Ask For — Help

Some Oregonians are using social media to organize care for neighbors during the coronavirus outbreak. A Facebook group in Bend is teeming with requests and offers to help with childcare and errands.

Artist rendering of the Ted and Jean Scripps Marine Conservation and Technology Building

Scripps Institution of Oceanography lands grant to finish major new building project

San Diego researchers will have a new tool at their disposal as they track changes in the world's oceans.

A growing number of restaurants are offering produce, dry goods and pantry staples to customers, in addition to their normal menu items. It helps customers buy essential items, provides restaurants with a source of revenue — and addresses a sudden disconnect in America's food supply chains.

A Pound Of Flour To Go? Restaurants Are Selling Groceries Now

Some restaurants are adding toilet paper, fresh vegetables and other staples to their menus. They rely on different supply chains than grocery stores, so there's still plenty of yeast to be had.

Jacob Ezzo, a chorus teacher from South Orange Middle School in New Jersey, has helped spearhead an effort to make face shields for those working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.

Music Teacher's 'Weekend' Project Turns Into Almost 40,000 Face Shields

Working alongside dozens of other volunteers, middle school chorus teacher Jacob Ezzo has made and sent PPE to health care workers and first responders from New Jersey to the Navajo Nation.

Yolanda López died on Sept. 3 of complications liver cancer. Her first museum solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego was delayed by a year due, in part, to the pandemic.

Yolanda López's first museum show opens Saturday, just weeks after the artist's death

The exhibit at San Diego's Museum of Contemporary Art will include 50 of the artist's pieces, including the Virgen de Guadalupe triptych which remains one of López's best known works.

San Diego City Councilwoman Georgette Gomez speaks during a council meeting, Dec. 12, 2016.

San Diego City Council Members Are Bringing You Hyperlocal Updates

Councilwoman Georgette Gomez is hosting a State of the District event on Thursday. Other council members are offering similar events in 2018.

Host Steven Raichlen. STEVEN RAICHLEN'S PROJECT FIRE is a new and insightful exploration of how we grill today, and how we will grill and smoke tomorrow. The series introduces new foods — from unfamiliar cuts of steak to eco-friendly seafood — and new twists on popular classics, such as entire meals cooked on the grill, from breakfast to paella to clambakes.

STEVEN RAICHLEN'S PROJECT FIRE: Season 1

Airs Saturdays, June 23 - Aug. 11 & Sept. 8-29, 2018 at 1 p.m. on KPBS TV

The Trump administration announced two new political appointees Tuesday at the U.S. Census Bureau, which is headquartered in Suitland, Md.

Trump Appointees Join Census Bureau; Democrats Concerned Over Partisan 'Games'

Some Democrats are calling new political appointments at the federal government's largest statistical agency a Trump administration attempt to interfere with the 2020 census.

Christa Jones, a nurse in the Sharp Grossmont Hospital intensive care unit, prepares to give Tylenol to a COVID-19 patient to lower his fever, April 20, 2020.

California coronavirus death count tops 70,000 as cases fall

The mark recorded Monday by Johns Hopkins University is the highest in the country. Texas is about 3,000 deaths behind. The milestone comes as California is experiencing the lowest rate of new infection cases among all states.

A Stonewall Jackson statue is loaded on a truck after being removed from Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday.

Revisiting Sacred Cows: Which Figures From History Do We Honor, And How?

Statues have been taken down; names scrubbed from institutions. The national reckoning over race has reenergized debates over historical figures and the scrutiny goes beyond Confederate monuments.

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