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The current shortage of teachers and school staff has now found its way to the great outdoors — and the largest outdoor school in California run by San Diego County’s Office of Education.
The San Diego County Office of Education will be holding a job fair on May 20 to staff the Cuyamaca Outdoor School.
Environmentalists oppose the plant and say it will damage marine life and is vulnerable to flooding from sea-level rise.
Environmentalists oppose the plant and say it will damage marine life and is vulnerable to flooding from sea level rise.
San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria says he’s proposing the largest infrastructure investment in city history. More than $800 million for a wide range of improvements. On Thursday, he and other San Diego leaders gathered at Mountain View Park to outline his plan.
San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria says he’s proposing the largest infrastructure investment in city history, with more than $800 million budgeted for a wide range of improvements.
It has been long theorized about, but not seen. Now, we have an image of a supermassive black hole.
"We finally have the first look at our Milky Way black hole, Sagittarius A*," an international team of astrophysicists and researchers from the Event Horizon Telescope team said.
For years, dealing with people who are experiencing a mental health crisis has fallen to law enforcement officers. It’s a job they didn’t sign up for — and one that most of them aren’t trained to do. But that’s no longer the case in San Diego County.
There are 16 Mobile Crisis Response Teams working different shifts daily all across San Diego County and it is now a 24/7 initiative as of April of this year.
The number of people experiencing homelessness in downtown San Diego and the surrounding area doubled last year. A San Diego State University professor and his students are now asking people living in the streets what they actually need.
SDSU student researchers work with people experiencing homelessness to reimagine downtown's geography and identify how services can better meet people's needs.
This week there’s a spotlight on health care heroes, it’s National Nurses Week. Here's a profile of a nurse who works with patients 8,000 feet in the air.
For National Nurses Week, KPBS is profiling a nurse that does not work in a hospital or clinic, but up to 8,000 feet in the air.
Starting Jan. 1, that limit will increase to $350,000 for people who were injured and $500,000 for the families of people who died. The limits will increase gradually over the next decade until they reach $750,000 for injured patients and $1 million for the relatives of deceased patients.
Starting Jan. 1, that limit will increase to $350,000 for people who were injured and $500,000 for the families of people who died, and the limit will gradually increase over the next decade.
Senate's top Republican says the Supreme Court's role is to protect basic rights, even when majorities are in favor of something else. "That happens all the time."
President Biden marked the approaching milestone of 1 million U.S. deaths in the coronavirus pandemic.
"One million empty chairs around the dinner table. Each an irreplaceable loss," he said.
Johns Hopkins University says the virus has killed more than 999,000 people in the U.S.
The Chrysalis: Monarch School’s Center for the Arts opens in Barrio Logan to support students who are experiencing homelessness.
The Chrysalis: Monarch School’s Center for the Arts opens in Barrio Logan supporting students who are experiencing homelessness.
Jerome Powell was confirmed to a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve, a powerful post from which he'll lead the central bank's challenging campaign to bring down inflation.
Jerome Powell was confirmed to a second term as Federal Reserve chairman. The Senate vote comes as the central bank faces intense pressure to bring down inflation.
In North Park, Jake Hueras has an apartment that costs $2,100 a month. It’s a one bedroom, one bath, and 650 square-foot place that he shares with his girlfriend. He’s boosted the debt on his credit card and he’s canceled his health insurance to help make ends meet. He was forced out of another apartment in Normal Heights and his new place is smaller and more expensive.
“About a hundred dollars more,” Hueras said. “We lost a bedroom and a bathroom. A hundred square feet. But it was the only place that had the criteria we needed.”
San Diego’s perennial housing crunch gets a lot worse, as the median single family home price reaches $1 million.
#BREAKING: House investigators said Thursday that they have issued subpoenas to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers as part of their probe into the violent Jan. 6 insurrection, an extraordinary step that has little precedent and is certain to further inflame partisan tensions over the 2021 attack.
This extraordinary step has little precedent and is certain to further inflame partisan tensions over the 2021 attack.
The year-to-year rise in overdose deaths was much higher from 2019 to 2020, jumping by a historic 30%. While the rise in deaths slowed down in 2021, the total number of deaths is still the highest annual overdose deaths ever recorded in the U.S.
New numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that synthetic opioid use is driving the overdose crisis in the U.S.
A tentative settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit brought by families of victims and survivors of last June's condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida.
Prices all over the U.S. have been rising astronomically. Boise, Phoenix, Austin and Miami have been particularly hot. But prices are up sharply pretty much everywhere. Moody's home price index shows a 32% rise in prices nationally over the past two years. The National Association of Realtors reports an even bigger increase of 39%.
During the past two years, home prices nationally have soared more than 30%. Rising mortgage rates make affording a home even harder. That has many people wondering if we're in another housing bubble.
A jury convicted former certified nursing assistant Matthew Fluckiger in March of sexually assaulting a woman at La Mesa’s Parkway Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation in January 2020.
But jurors hung on counts involving two other women. One lived at the Avocado Post Acute nursing home and the other at San Diego Post-Acute Center, both in El Cajon. Eleven jurors voted to convict Fluckiger, one to acquit.
For years, Matthew Fluckiger job-hopped among nursing facilities in eastern San Diego County, assaulting women at each stop, before finally being arrested in 2020.
In October, Baja California legalized abortion — up to 12 weeks of pregnancy and longer in cases or rape or when a person's life is in danger.
“I think Tijuana can be the capital of abortion for people who come from the United States and have a procedure in a discreet and convenient manner,” said Luisa Garcia, director of Profem, a company that has four clinics in Mexico.
Americans have long traveled to the border city for root canals, plastic surgery and even liposuctions at a fraction of the price that they pay at home. Abortion services will likely be added to that list.
Only six days until the premiere of the 2022 GI Film Festival San Diego!
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A New York judge said he will lift the contempt of court order if Donald Trump meets conditions including paying $110,000 in fines he's racked up for being slow to respond to a civil subpoena.
California legislators are advancing two bills that would require companies to report more data about pay and internal practices. Business groups oppose the bills and say the data could be taken out of context.
San Diego Opera had "Aging Magician" on its schedule in March of 2020, but had to cancel the production because of COVID-19. Now it presents the West Coast premiere of this hybrid opera-theatre piece that combines singing, choral work, puppetry, and performance art.
Hybrid opera-theater show is part of dētour Series at Balboa Theatre.
Last week, 189 lab-confirmed influenza cases were reported in the region, far exceeding the number of infections identified during the same week in previous seasons.
JUST IN: A federal appeals court ruled that California's ban on the sale of semiautomatic weapons to adults under age 21 is unconstitutional. In a 2-1 ruling, the court says a San Diego judge should have blocked what it called "an almost total ban on semiautomatic centerfire rifles” for young adults.
In a 2-1 ruling, the court says a San Diego judge should have blocked what it called "an almost total ban on semiautomatic centerfire rifles” for young adults.
An overturn of Roe v. Wade could open the door to restrictions on other types of reproductive health care, medical and legal experts say — like birth control, Plan B, trans-affirming care and in vitro.
Overturning Roe v. Wade could threaten birth control and other care, experts say.
The namesake son of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos appeared to have been elected Philippine president by a landslide in an astonishing reversal of the 1986 "People Power" pro-democracy revolt that ousted his father.
It has divided people in the U.S. as much as in the Philippines, including San Diego, which boasts the fifth-largest Filipino population in the nation.
A report from the Labor Department Wednesday shows consumer prices in April were 8.3% higher than a year earlier. That's a modest decrease from the March inflation rate of 8.5%, thanks in part to a short-lived drop in gasoline prices last month.
The annual inflation rate eased somewhat in April, but not enough to meaningfully reduce the burden on lower-income Americans.
#ICYMI: David Majchrzak, president of the San Diego County Bar Association joined KPBS Midday Edition to talk about why the bar association offers judicial evaluations as guidance for voters.
The San Diego County Bar Association published its evaluations for seven candidates running for three San Diego Superior Court judicial seats.
WATCH LIVE: Biden delivers remarks on rising food prices.
The property is bordered by West Ash to the north, West A to the south, State Street to the west and Front Street to the east, and contains an excess state office building, 1350 Front Street, which is expected to be demolished.
The state Tuesday awarded two blocks of Downtown San Diego to the Michaels Organization to develop into affordable housing.
#UPDATE: Democrats in the U.S. Senate have failed to advance a bill that would guarantee access to abortion across the country.
West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin joined all Senate Republicans in opposing the legislation.
Senators voted on the Women's Health Protection Act on Wednesday, but, as expected, it did not reach the 60 vote threshold to pass. It failed 49-51.
West winds from 20 mph to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph are expected in the San Diego deserts.
A wind advisory is in effect in parts of San Diego County until 11 a.m. Wednesday.
#ICYMI on KPBS Midday Edition: The suit accused the county of excessive force, negligence and wrongful death after Lucky Phounsy called 911 in 2015, saying that someone was going to harm him, his wife and their two young children.
Gregory Moran, who covers criminal justice and legal affairs for The San Diego Union-Tribune, joined Midday Edition to talk about the trial, the next steps in the case and what this means for law enforcement accountability.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reporter Greg Moran joined Midday Edition to talk about details of the case — and what is next.
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