Nicholas McVicker
News EditorNic McVicker has been part of the KPBS News team since 2011 and has had the pleasure of serving the San Diego community by telling their stories. As editor, McVicker is dedicated to helping KPBS reporters best serve the audience with diverse sources and unique stories.
He grew up in the Midwest until the snow blew him and his family out West to San Diego where he enjoys local craft beer, sports, and a day at the beach. McVicker graduated from the University of Northern Iowa, where he studied Electronic Media and Communications. He worked at WHO-TV in Des Moines, Iowa, as an editor and photojournalist. While at WHO-TV, he had the opportunity to cover the first in the nation's caucus' interviewing Barack Obama and John McCain in 2007 and 2008.
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San Diego's rising population will bring with it hundreds of thousands more cars, more concerns about finding place to park and a fear that parking lots will overtake the city's landscape.
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High surf will pound the San Diego County coastline today, bringing with it dangerous rip currents and a possibility of flooding, forecasters said. -
UC San Diego researchers are looking for new treatments for myeloma, a blood cancer for which there is no cure. -
Former prosecutors contend couples counseling proposed in new San Diego pilot program endangers lives and contradicts research.
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San Diego is one of a few California counties that plan to avoid building more jails by keeping offenders from ending up back behind bars.
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KPBS Midday EditionTwo years after a KPBS/Investigative Newsource investigation posed serious questions about how well the whooping cough vaccine works, new research confirms the vaccine is failing at a higher rate than expected. Troubling news as the country is on track to experience its worst whooping cough epidemic in 50 years. Health officials are looking at recommending a seventh dose of vaccine to control the outbreak. -
A plan to turn some beat-up industrial land along the San Diego River into the Riverbend housing development has won over the people Grantville... unless they are opposed to it. -
Balboa Park is recovering after a nasty water gun fight there this weekend left its beloved lily pond trashed.
- An immigration raid at a San Diego restaurant leads to a chaotic scene
- The White House is deporting people to countries they're not from. Why?
- San Diego local leaders surprised by DHS' 'sanctuary jurisdiction' designation
- Some of the U.S. could see the northern lights due to a geomagnetic storm
- Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in a drone attack deep inside Russia