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A team of researchers is helping San Diego County students get hands on experience in marine biology. Many of the students, who’ve never seen the ocean, only live 15 miles away from the beach. Plus, a border agent who specialized in asylum cases is speaking out about what he saw under the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" program. And, the first rain storm of the season is here and flash flood warnings are in effect. The worst of the storm is expected today, hear what you can do to prepare.

California workplace regulators extended the state's coronavirus pandemic regulations into next year with revisions that businesses say could worsen the labor shortage.

Prosecutors charged the 15-year-old accused of killing four students and injuring others at a Michigan High School as an adult. Thousands of children are tried or incarcerated as adults each year.

Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, it's never been easier or more affordable to make a perfect facsimile of a human voice: a celebrity, a world leader or even a public-radio reporter.

The pop star is returning to stages two years after releasing an acclaimed second album, Future Nostalgia, and being forced like everyone else to hunker down for the long chill.

A draft study has found that at least a tenth of the world’s mature giant sequoias were destroyed by a single California wildfire that tore through the southern Sierra Nevada last year.

Many parents at the rally Monday had pulled their children out of school to attend the rally.

In the report, published in Monday's online edition of Pediatrics, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science researchers found in 2014 people ages 12 to 24 using e-cigarettes were three times as likely to become daily cigarette smokers in the future.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Kim Cobb, one of the lead authors of the U.N.'s new landmark climate report, about the urgency of acting to lower emissions and how oceans are impacted by climate change.

Valarie Kaur on the power of love as a force for social change on Martin Luther King Jr.’s Day. Plus, The downfall of Duncan Hunter, the Hunter political dynasty and the race to replace him has now been turned into a documentary. Also, meet the candidates vying to be the next San Diego mayor — two establishment Dems, an outsider and the lone Republican. And, in a new episode of “Only Here,” meet the entrepreneur who is trying to tame the San Diego-Mexico border-crossing wait time with technology. Finally, Emmy-winning actor Alan Alda is partnering with the Scripps Research Institute to improve how scientists communicate their findings to the general public.