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Austin Amestoy: Im Austin Amestoy. After moving online for the first time in its 19-year history in 2021, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is back in full force. The

San Diegans are rushing to local testing centers to make sure they're clear of COVID-19 ahead of the holidays, or they're just cautious about the rapidly...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists San Diego County’s COVID transmission rate as worse than Los Angeles County's, which is, of course, a...

Escondido boarding school for foster youth can stay open until state creates a new license category for the campus

The COVID-19 pandemic is still with us. Biomedical innovation has rallied to address that pressing concern while continuing to tackle broader research challenges.

But will budget and staffing increases reverse decades of inattention and improve outcomes for patients

Tens of millions of Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4 or get tested for the virus weekly under government rules issued Thursday. Plus, Rep. Mike Levin on the contents of a $1.75 trillion dollar social benefits package being debated in Congress right now. Also, San Diego spent millions of dollars on contact tracing to fight the pandemic, but was it worth it? And, KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando has a preview of...

The county hired nearly 1,000 people and spent millions on contract tracing, but the program aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19 was too small to actually meet that goal. Still, experts say contact tracing can and will be effective in dealing with flare-ups of the disease. Meanwhile, local researchers are both hopeful and apprehensive about the climate conference underway in Scotland. Plus, for those getting out of jail or addiction recovery centers, transitioning back into society can be a...

Experts say the impact the program did have, however small, made it worthwhile.

The 2016 photo was featured on a page promoting an August 2019 fishing class