Miguel Gutierrez Jr.

Monday, Sept. 15, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / KPBS+. ROADSHOW revisits vintage treasures from San Jose with values updated for today’s market including a Kashmir sapphire and diamond ring, an Edwardian jockey chair, and a Tlingit bowl and ladle. Watch to learn which find is now $325K-$350K!

See Leila Dunbar appraise a 1901-1910 steam car and racing collection in "Vintage San Jose, Hour 1."

The region's avocado acreage has dropped from roughly 26,000 acres in 2008 to about 13,000 in 2024. A combination of increased water rates and labor costs is bringing the industry down.

The state’s farmers are divided over a bill that would loosen rules protecting agricultural land. The goal of a bill proposed by Assembly Democrat Buffy Wicks is to seed solar farms on fallowed fields.

Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Part 1 and 2 Saturdays, Sept.13 + 20, 2025 at 11 a.m. on KPBS 2 or Tuesday, Sept.16 from 8 - 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV. The policies and persona of Franklin Delano Roosevelt set the cast of the "modern" presidency. He was unquestionably the most vital figure in the nation, and perhaps the world, during his 13 years in the White House. Engendering both admiration and scorn, FDR exerted unflinching leadership during the most tumultuous period in the nation's history since the Civil War.

President Roosevelt's inaugural address filled the American people with confidence in their new leader. "They hear coming through their loudspeakers this voice so filled with courage, with self confidence, with a sense of leadership," says historian William Leuchtenburg.

California's three largest utilities received approval to collect $27 billion from ratepayers after utility equipment sparked tragic wildfires. The soaring price of electricity has ignited debate about how much California families should bear for the cost of wildfire prevention, whether utilities are balancing risk and affordability and whether the money is being spent wisely.