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As big-money developers flock to Karachi, Amber Alibhai is one of the few people to openly question the development. In a city where millions of people live in poverty and clean water is often scarce, the activist asks, who needs golf courses? Alibhai's work has provoked threats against her and her family.

Non-Voter's Remorse

The long-awaited application, 8,600 pages long, is so big it had to be delivered by truck. In order for licenses to be granted, the documents need to show that the proposed Yucca Mountain repository won't leak dangerous amounts of radioactive material.

The California Supreme Court strikes down state laws limiting marriage to unions between those of the opposite sex as unconstitutional, a judge drops gang-related allegations against the so-called "Bi

The Senate voted Monday to take up a global warming bill that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by putting a price on carbon. That would essentially require factories, utilities and refineries to pay for the right to emit carbon dioxide. The so-called cap-and-trade system aims to reduce emissions by 70 percent by 2050.

Karachi is one of the most-populous cities in the world, growing and changing at a breakneck pace. Two of its leading citizens — the late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's niece and a colorful newspaper columnist — offer their views of the dynamic Pakistani city.

The Children of Huang Shi draws on the real life of British journalist George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers). Hogg is eager to enter China in 1937 to…

Some people have accused City Attorney Mike Aguirre of playing mayor. He's making decisions he shouldn't be involved in, politicizing the office, while slacking off on his duties to offer timely legal advice to the city's other elected representatives. Mr. Aguirre, on the other hand, refers to himself as the people's representative, and his role as serving more as a check and balance to political power brokers than as filling the role of dispassionate counselor.

The City Attorney Race Boils Down to Mike Aguirre, Plus One

The Commerce Department says it will hold a public hearing in California this summer on a controversial proposal to build a toll road through San Onofre State Park. KPBS Reporter Ed Joyce has details.