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The Port of San Diego is a public agency charged with managing the bayfront. It claims its top goals are strengthening its finances and building public trust. But over the past 15 years, the port has lost tens of millions of dollars in maritime operations. KPBS Reporter Amita Sharma found the port has not clearly documented those losses for the public.

Comics Rise To Meet the Challenge of Depicting the 9/11 Tragedy

In the early years of the AIDS epidemic, volunteers at a San Diego food pantry noticed that some of it's clients, sick with the AIDS virus became too sick to pick up their food. The idea for Mama's Kitchen was born in 1990, and since then the organization has served more than 5 million meals. We talk to Alberto Cortés about the history of the organization and its mission to address nutritional needs of people living with AIDS or cancer.

T. Jefferson Parker talks about the latest novel in his Charlie Hood series, The Border Lords, a continuing tale of drugs and guns along the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Legislation aimed at curbing deadly accidents on a stretch of highway known as “blood alley” has been signed by Governor Schwarzenegger. It would create a double fine zone in the area and makes it

The warning was ominous, its predictions dire: Oceanographers issued a bulletin telling Hawaii and other Pacific islands that a killer wave was heading their way with terrifying force and that "urgent action should be taken to protect lives and property."

Last week, a one-month-old baby died in a San Diego hospital of complications from whooping cough. Find out why whooping cough is now an epidemic in California, who is most at risk and how to protect yourself and your family.

Employers cut 533,000 jobs in November — the most in 34 years — pushing the U.S. unemployment rate to 6.7 percent. The new numbers ramp up pressure on federal officials to approve another big stimulus package.

As part of our monthly series on ethics in science and technology, we'll look at how changing information about climate change impacts scientific, social and political realms.

A group opposed to a defense contractor's plans to build a center in East County to train military forces is objecting to the county's use of lobbyists that also work for the company. KPBS reporter Am