Tammy Murga

Meet the candidates and learn what's at stake in the races for U.S. House of Representatives Districts 48, 49, 50, 51, 52.

The 145-mile transmission line would bisect Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, widely recognized as California's largest and most biodiverse state park.

The San Diego County Health and Safety Act would pay for infrastructure projects related to cross-border pollution.

For months, temperatures all along the West Coast have risen 3 to 4 degrees above normal. Now, Scientists say a separate heat wave is forming hundreds of miles off the Pacific coast and are monitoring whether the two heat waves could merge.

The premiere of “The Inaudible Ocean” is on May 20 at the Conrad Prebys Music Center Concert Hall in La Jolla.

The Waste Free SD hotline answers callers' questions about where and how to dispose of their unwanted waste.

They each carry an 80-liter trash bag and, once the bags get too heavy to carry around, they know it’s time to walk home and get ready for work.

This week, KPBS is bringing you stories about San Diegans who say the climate crisis spurred them into action. A Mountain View couple has been cleaning their neighborhood for several years. KPBS environment reporter Tammy Murga says they're motivated to pick up trash around a local school to protect the youngest members of their community.

Students are developing a chemical index that the public can use to better understand where the chemicals polluting the Tijuana River come from and what dangers they pose to their health.

The organization said it's rationing hundreds of bags of food and drinks to prevent turning people away.