The Obama Administration this week outlined new rules to combat climate change, including cuts to carbon emissions from existing power plants.

Last week, a group of citizen scientists was able to make contact with a satellite that hasn't been used in 17 years. It's called the International Sun Earth Explorer or ISEE-3 and it was launched by NASA in 1978.

Over the past five months, there have been five earthquakes measuring 4.0 or greater. A string of quakes that hasn't occurred since 1994, the year of the Northridge Earthquake.

Voter turnout this Election Day could be the worst on record in California, but in small, rural Sierra County, residents almost never sit out elections.

In the second part of our series “Teaching Through Trauma,” KPCC’s Annie Gilbertson visits Camino Nuevo, a charter school whose mission is to improve the grades—and lives—of disadvantaged students.

The World Cup kicks off in less than two weeks, but FIFA, the governing body of soccer, is in the hot seat for a date down the line: Qatar in 2022.

Time for Tuesday Reviewsday, our weekly new music segment. Joining us this week is Shirley Halperin, music editor at The Hollywood Reporter and Chris Martins, news editor at Spin Magazine

A notable uptick in Central American families and unaccompanied children coming across the U.S.-Mexico border is overwhelming federal facilities in South Texas.

Until a couple of weeks ago, immigrants in California had hoped a bill in the state legislature would let them get Medi-Cal or a state subsidy to buy private health insurance. But that bill has stalled and its future is uncertain.

The decision ends a 33-year ban, and it means the government recognizes the procedures are medically necessary for those who don't identify with their biological sex.

The Seattle city council has voted to raise the minimum wage in that city to $15 an hour, the highest minimum wage in the country by far. So what effect could this have in Seattle and beyond?

With our reliance on smart phones, tablets and laptops we've gained a lot of conveniences, but could it be that we're also loosing a key developmental tool?

The California brown pelican was weak and starving when he arrived at International Bird Rescue's bird hospital in San Pedro, but after two surgeries he's made a remarkable recovery.

When one of Jeff Cohen's daughters cut his other daughter's hair, Cohen taped an interview with them about their story. It's now been turned into a children's book: "Eva and Sadie and the Worst Haircut EVER!”