Tammy Murga
Environment ReporterTammy Murga is the environment reporter at KPBS.
Before joining KPBS, she reported on San Diego County’s South County region for The San Diego Union-Tribune. Tammy has built her career covering communities across California, documenting recovery efforts after devastating Northern California wildfires, the resilience of youth following a deadly school shooting in Southern California and the ways business owners adapted amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Her reporting has been recognized by the California News Publishers Association and the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists.
In 2024, she was selected as a Data Fellow with the University of Southern California’s Center for Health Journalism, where she investigated the environmental and health impacts of cross-border pollution on children. Tammy has a background in journalism and new media, and graduated from Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles.
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The city says that the old trash bins are being recycled and blue bins are next. -
Investor-owned utility San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) is selling the Sikorsky S-70 Firehawk to San Diego County five years after it bought it. -
San Diego workers join tens of thousands of University of California custodians, food service workers and patient care technicians across the state who walked off the job over living costs. -
The incoming storm is expected to make landfall in San Diego County late Thursday and clear out by midday Friday. -
Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center will manage the property for up to one year. -
The Port of San Diego installed hundreds of concrete oyster castles near the Chula Vista Wildlife Reserve. The Port hopes the castles will protect the shoreline from sea-level rise and promote biodiversity.
- ICE agents arrest green card applicants in San Diego
- Sharp nurses and health workers begin three-day strike across San Diego
- North County market owner gets temporary reprieve in immigration court
- The community rallies behind a North County market owner
- New CA youth gun law closes loopholes for some, doors for others