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Hank Pronk's two-man submarine, the Nekton Gamma, leaves the dock.

Submarine Hobbyists Help Researchers On Montana's Flathead Lake

Submarine hobbyists are helping scientists in Montana do environmental research on the state's lakes. Researchers couldn't otherwise afford to rent subs, and it gives the hobbyists a sense of purpose.

Health care workers feel unprotected from the disease they're supposed to treat.

'It's Like Walking Into Chernobyl,' One Doctor Says Of Her Emergency Room

Some health care workers say they're exhausted and burning out from the stress of treating a stream of critically ill patients in an increasingly overstretched health care system.

Bill Conway (left) and Matt Saincome (right) collected their favorite articles from their satirical website The Hard Times for a new book.

The Satire Continues With 'The Hard Times: The First 40 Years'

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Matt Saincome and Bill Conway, co-founders of the satirical punk rock news website The Hard Times, about their new book.

Every summer on Palermo's Mondello beach, over 1,000 cabins are built in preparation of the Ferragosto holiday. Centered around a family who goes into debt, three women holding onto the feeling of youth and a politician seeking votes, "Happy Winter" portrays a vanity fair of beachgoers hiding behind the memory of a social status that the economic crisis of recent years has compromised.

POV: Happy Winter

Airs Monday, Aug. 12, 2019 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV + Thursday, Aug. 15 at Noon on KPBS 2

The seal of the Department of Veterans Affairs is seen on the building in Washington, Friday, June 21, 2013.

VA San Diego Homeless Program Puts Vets Back To Work

The VA San Diego's Career Assisted Therapy is designed to bring veterans back into the workforce after they have a grappled with a disability or mental illness.

Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in his first public appearance in Mosul, Iraq, in July 2014 (left) and in a video released Monday that purported to show him speaking to supporters.

ISIS Leader Apparently Releases Video For First Time In 5 Years

The man who is purportedly Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi acknowledges the recent major defeat of ISIS in Baghouz, Syria.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, seen shortly after his capture during a 2003 raid in Pakistan, is accused of masterminding the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

Trial Date Set For Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 4 Others Charged In Sept. 11 Attacks

A U.S. military court judge in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has set a trial date of Jan. 11, 2021, though a number of other deadlines would need to be met for the trial to begin then.

The Playground Preachers hip-hop group at the 2018 San Diego Youth Hip Hop & Leadership Summit in this undated photo.

Hip-Hop Summit Connects San Diego Teens To College, Careers

Armand King didn’t think that college was an option for him as he dealt with poverty and violence in his neighborhood. The San Diego Youth Hip Hop & Leadership Summit aims to help kids today who are like that too.

More Americans have been getting less than seven hours of sleep a night in the past several years, especially in professions such as health care.

Working Americans Are Getting Less Sleep, Especially Those Who Save Our Lives

The number of workers getting less than seven hours of sleep a night is rising. Stress and our culture of constant connection may be to blame.

San Diego's seal is shown at the downtown City Administration Building, May 8, 2018.

Council Approves 420,000 Square Foot Office Campus In Torrey Highlands

The San Diego City Council voted 6-3 Monday to approve a 420,000-square-foot commercial office development on an undeveloped 11-acre lot in Torrey Highlands.

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