Peggy Pico
KPBS Evening Edition HostPeggy Pico served as the host of KPBS Evening Edition. Pico originally joined the KPBS newsroom as the science and technology reporter in 2010 after spending two years covering biotechnology and medical news in the Bay Area. Pico was raised in San Diego and has worked as a broadcast journalist in California, Arizona, and Texas. She previously reported for NBC 7/39 where she worked as a medical and science reporter for five years. Pico has won two Emmy’s and numerous awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Associated Press, and the San Diego Press Club. She also received the USC Health Reporter Fellowship and is a member of California Chicano News Media Association and the Association of Health Care Journalists.
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All of the first graders at Logan Elementary School in Logan Heights got brand new bicycles and helmets for Christmas this year. The pint-sized students were surprised on Wednesday morning at a school assembly. -
The artificial sweetener saccharin is removed from the list of substances posing a risk to humans.
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A new seatless bicycle made in San Diego lets you run rather than ride on it -- outdoors. -
The San Diego Wild Animal Park has recently re-christened itself the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. To go along with the new name are two adorable new residents of the park: Sumatran tiger cubs. But those baby tigers are actually part of a very serious effort to save the species from extinction. It's an effort Zoo curators are working to continue and expand. -
Go inside the den of twin Sumatran tiger cubs born in San Diego. KPBS Reporter Peggy Pico has the story on the cubs role in reversing a nearly extinct species. -
There are only about 3,200 tigers left in the world living in the wild, but two tiger cubs born in San Diego are doing their part to save the species from extinction.
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