Dec 02 Local reporter caught in middle of San Bernardino shootout By William Brangham A local San Bernardino reporter was caught in the middle of the shootout between police and the alleged suspects from today’s mass shooting in Southern California. Continue reading
Dec 02 14 dead in San Bernardino shooting; two suspects dead By Margaret Myers, Joshua Barajas Gunman opened fire at a social services agency in San Bernardino, California, Wednesday morning. Fourteen people are dead and 17 wounded. Two suspects, one man and one woman, are dead, both had assault-style weapons. Another suspect is in custody. Continue reading
Nov 28 Watch 10:03 San Francisco bolsters anti-AIDS campaign with new funding By PBS News Hour NewsHour's John Carlos Frey reports in this updated segment on San Francisco's plan to zero out the number of new HIV infections. The city's public health officials, doctors, and activists have made huge strides battling the epidemic and are now… Continue watching
Nov 27 Watch 8:19 Steering young people away from a life mixed up with gangs By PBS News Hour Naomi McSwain was once a member of the notorious Crips gang in South Los Angeles before leaving that path of violence and drug use to devote her career to helping other young people escape. McSwain sits down with special correspondent… Continue watching
Nov 03 Watch 8:04 To build or not to build, that's the dam question in dry California By PBS News Hour Across California, after years of punishing drought, reservoirs that normally fill canals and make crops bloom are greatly depleted or even empty. Some say that getting more water into storage by building more dams is key. But dams also create… Continue watching
Nov 03 Watch 5:46 From legal pot to Airbnb limits, 2015 election offers test cases to watch By PBS News Hour On this Election Day, a handful of states voted to elect state and local leaders and decide a number of ballot measures, from the legalization of marijuana to the expansion of LGBT protections. Judy Woodruff gets a rundown of the… Continue watching
Nov 03 San Francisco voters reject proposal to restrict Airbnb By Associated Press San Francisco voters have rejected a proposal to restrict Airbnb and a second ballot measure prompted by the city's housing crisis. Continue reading
Nov 03 Why dams are at the heart of California's water wars By Spencer Michels I’ve been covering California water issues a long time. As the years have gone by, the water wars have ebbed and flowed. Mostly flowed. Continue reading
Oct 31 Watch 9:46 Is desalination the future of drought relief in California? By PBS News Hour San Diego is set to soon start supplying itself with millions of gallons a day of fresh, drinkable water, using saltwater from the Pacific Ocean, converted by a brand new desalination plant. As California's historic drought continues, the plant will… Continue watching
Oct 27 One California police department trades batons for nunchucks By Eric Osman A martial arts weapon, the nunchaku or nunchucks, renowned for knocking out Bruce Lee’s adversaries, has increasingly popularized within America’s police forces. Continue reading