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Kurt Snibbe

Kurt Snibbe is a visual journalist for Southern California News Group. Snibbe has won several medals in international graphics competitions and was a staff cartoonist for ESPN.com. Snibbe began with the Register in 1997, left in 2008 and returned in 2013.

Here’s how California changed the nation’s handling of hazardous materials

May 29, 2026 at 3:35 p.m.

Here's the sad story of why the fire diamond hazmat sign was created.

Burger Boss Executive Administrator Makeen Farha prepares to give out free hamburgers at the Harrison HOPE Center in Corona on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025. About 75 people received free meals under a partnership between Burger Boss, The Road Home and Mercy House. “I wanted to give back to the community and I love making people smile,” Farha said. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

For Hamburger Day, a brief history of one of America’s favorite foods

May 25, 2026 at 1:13 p.m.

What was the first fast food burger chain? Surprise! It's not McDonald's.

A look at Arlington National Cemetery, where every day is Memorial Day

May 22, 2026 at 3:01 p.m.

Here's what the National Cemetery is doing for America 250.

FILE – Jonathan Dumke, a senior forensic chemist with the Drug Enforcement Administration, holds vials of fentanyl pills at a DEA research laboratory on April 29, 2025, in Northern Virginia. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Here’s how much drug overdose deaths have declined in recent years

May 15, 2026 at 1:32 p.m.

Find out how California's Naloxone Distribution Project is helping.

Here’s a look at some of the Founding Mothers of our country

May 8, 2026 at 2:45 p.m.

You might be surprised by how George and Martha Washington met.

A pelican flies over the ocean water after being released. This pelican weighed 2282 grams when it was rescued due to emaciation in late March and weighed 3870 grams when it was released on Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (Kristian Carreon / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Learn more about our oceans for Mother Ocean Day, May 9

May 8, 2026 at 2:38 p.m.

Here's why scientists call the ocean the heart of the planet.

A look back at the manhunt to capture Osama bin Laden

May 1, 2026 at 6:33 p.m.

The raid on Osama bin Laden's compound took place 15 years ago.

The destroyed Chernobyl reactor in 1986, one of four units operating at the site in what is now northern Ukraine. No units operate today.

A look back at the world’s worst nuclear power plant disaster

April 26, 2026 at 10:38 a.m.

It's been 40 years since the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Visitors walk toward Yucca Point in the Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve on March 3, 2026 in San Diego, CA. The state park reopened Sunday after a four-month infrastructure project. A second phase of construction will close the park in late summer. (K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

You might be surprised what the rarest pine tree in the U.S. is

May 20, 2026 at 2:41 p.m.

These trees used to be called Soledad pines.

Here’s the share of global trade passing through the Strait of Hormuz

April 18, 2026 at 3:36 p.m.

The strait is deep enough and wide enough to handle the world’s largest crude oil tankers, and it is one of the world’s most important oil passageways.

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