Natasha Uzcátegui-Liggett

Students from Central Union High School in El Centro, California and KPBS San Diego have teamed up to release “Voices del Valle,” a new 11 episode, youth-led podcast spotlighting powerful coming-of-age stories from California’s Imperial Valley.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta sent a letter to the El Cajon police chief questioning whether the department was violating a state sanctuary law by sharing data from license plate reader systems. The chief insists the sharing is legal.

With large parts of the country under opposition control amid an ongoing civil war, analysts warn that election logistics could prove challenging.

A teen-run mental health hotline is seeing thousands of contacts from San Diego youth.

The right-wing news channel Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election. A trial had been scheduled for October.

To save the lives of infants and small kids in lower resource countries, there are a handful of tools: anti-malarial drugs, bed nets and vaccines. A massive experiment in rural Kenya suggests another.

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.