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The White House says President Biden tested negative, and will continue to be tested ahead of a planned trip to India this week.

A KPBS investigation uncovered staff at a local resettlement agency, which relies on federal dollars, were encouraging or facilitating refugees to lie on rental documents in order to get housing. The inaccurate forms left some refugee families vulnerable to losing their homes. Since publication, the agency’s director resigned, and the organization conducted an internal review, retrained its staff and reassessed how it places large refugee families into homes.

A local infectious disease specialist talks about how health officials are preparing for more monkeypox cases in the county. Meanwhile, a new program aims to help the LGBTQ+ community with addiction. Plus, San Diego’s newest penguin exhibit is the only place on the West Coast where you can see the world’s smallest penguins.

As the world remembers the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, KPBS highlights the stories of San Diego County's Vietnamese refugees and Vietnam War veterans.

The owner of a campaign services company is accused of conspiring with a former San Diego Police detective to illegally funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to local candidates from a wealthy Mexican businessman.

The novelist and his wife survived successive crashes in Uganda in 1954. In the letter, Hemingway also describes shooting his first lion in Kenya with an old gun "held together with tape."

In his series "Our Wild San Diego," KPBS anchor Dwane Brown takes you to places in San Diego County to discover the animals and plants that live here. He explores everything from sea creatures to birds to reptiles and shows the habitats where they live. Along the way, you meet the people working to protect our local environment.

Did you know that one blood donation can save up to three lives?  Or that someone in the United States needs blood every two seconds?  You can help save a life by donating blood at your library.  Sign up online at redcrossblood.org, using the sponsor code MVLIBRARY.

You saw William Mulholland in the movie Chinatown, but that highly fictionalized film only scratched the surface of this controversial figure. In one of the greatest civil engineering feats in American history, William Mulholland designed and built the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which transported water 233 miles from the picturesque Owens Valley south to Los Angeles. Completed in 1913, the aqueduct made him a hero to Angelenos, but fifteen years later, the St. Francis Dam above Los Angeles burst, killing over 400 people and effectively ending his career. This event is free and open to the public, and there is no need to pre-register.  Recommended for adults.