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  • San Diego County Now On State's COVID-19 Monitoring List
    San Diego County was placed on the state's COVID-19 monitoring list, which could lead to closures or new restrictions on businesses following the Fourth of July weekend. Also on KPBS’ San Diego News Matters podcast: County libraries are among the businesses that have had to backtrack plans to go back to business as usual, the histories of staffing shortages at nursing homes, which have left them especially vulnerable to the pandemic and more local news you need.
  • San Diego Nightlife Hotspots Are Also Outbreak Hotspots
    A KPBS analysis of COVID-19 community outbreaks shows ZIP codes that include the Gaslamp Quarter and Pacific Beach have had the highest number of community outbreaks. Also, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors is voting today on how to allocate millions of dollars for businesses hit hard by the COVID-19 restrictions. Plus, San Diego animal shelters have just received about 100 dogs and cats evacuated after August’s Hurricane Laura in Louisiana.
  • Shipping containers stacked high at the Port of Los Angeles, California on April 19. Supply chain disruptions are hitting small business owners across the U.S.
    Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, And It's Making Inflation Worse
    A surge in imports is overwhelming transportation networks and testing supply chains, making life hard for small-business owners.
  • Nick Prior adds a keeper to the box for his grandfather Verge to band its claws. Nick hopes to continue the family tradition but isn't sure lobstering is sustainable as a career.
    Maine's Next Generation Of Lobstermen Brace For Unprecedented Change
    Maine's vital lobster industry is facing big challenges: new regulations; fewer young people entering the business; and threats to its thriving lobster population, including climate change.
  • San Ysidro Chamber of Commerce sign is photographed on April 21, 2021.
    San Ysidro Businesses Struggle With Limits On Non-Essential Border Crossings
    Restrictions on non-essential crossings in the U.S. Mexico border have been extended through May 21. The San Ysidro Chamber of Commerce says these restrictions are hurting local businesses who depend on customers from Mexico.
  • Pinot Noir grapes just picked are shown in a bin in Napa, Calif., Friday, Aug. 29, 2014.
    San Diego County wine industry sees 19% sales growth in 2021
    San Diego County winery sales saw a 19% increase last year over 2020, but sales have not yet rebounded to a pre-pandemic high, according to a report released Wednesday by the San Diego County Vintners Association.
  • Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, with government officials and gun control advocates, speaks at a news conference on May 30 about firearm-control legislation that was tabled in the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
    As gun violence rises in Canada, weapons from the U.S. complicate gun control efforts
    A bill before Canada's Parliament aims to stop the spread of handguns — but one of the most difficult challenges for Canada is the guns being smuggled over the border from the U.S.
  • People line up outside of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on June 23, as the city makes vaccines available to residents possibly exposed to monkeypox.
    Monkeypox outbreak in U.S. is bigger than the CDC reports. Testing is 'abysmal'
    The testing system set up by the CDC actually deters doctors from ordering a monkeypox test, and many physicians aren't familiar with the disease, resulting in too few tests and little tracking.
  • Protesters gathered in Paris on Saturday to oppose a requirement to use a health pass to enter businesses or use public transportation.
    Thousands Protest Against France's Coronavirus Health Pass As Stricter Rules Loom
    Thousands of protesters took to the streets across France for the fourth consecutive weekend against a requirement for a new health pass that will be needed to enter businesses or use public transit.
  • Small island nations threatened by climate change seek voice in U.N. negotiations
    NPR's David Folkenflik speaks with ambassador Janine Felson, top climate negotiator from Belize, about the unique challenges facing small island nations ahead of the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow.
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