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Nonprofit Children Now issues its annual report card on the wellbeing of California children, but the scores aren't the kind of grades you’d want to show your parents.

The Boy Scouts of America's new policy to allow young gay men and boys to become Scouts went into effect Jan. 1. But the change remains controversial.

Throughout January, the nonprofit The Princess Project is collecting gently used prom dresses and evening gowns to distribute to high school girls from low-income families in San Diego.

In the second such closure in less than a year, the leaders of one of the San Diego's 49 charter schools has volunteered to close down.

The San Diego Police Department often has failed to follow its own rules regarding the collection of racial data at traffic stops, saying the community isn't concerned about racial profiling. A local black officers group, the NAACP and a city councilman disagree.

Longtime San Diego Padres baseball announcer Jerry Coleman, who as a player won four World Series rings with the New York Yankees, died Sunday at age 89, Padres officials announced.

A group you've never heard of is shaping city development codes. This year, the rubber meets the road at One Paseo. And San Diego's economic outlook for 2014 is not too shabby, experts say.

A new law granting access to school facilities and programs based on gender-identity instead of biological sex will be in place when San Diego students return to schools on Monday.

Better late than never. Covered California has introduced finally a health coverage enrollment form in Spanish, two months after it opened for business.

The private messaging app Snapchat just got much less private for millions of users after the app got hacked through a known security flaw.

The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force said lung cancer screening for many chain-smokers and former smokers should be done with a CT scan instead of an X-ray.

San Diego State University is now a smoke-free campus. The new non-smoking policy was years in the making.

A new law went into effect Jan. 1 making it a little harder for California students to skip required vaccinations. But there's still an easy way out for parents who don't want their kids to get shots.

One of the most scenic portions of the coastal highway between Tijuana and Ensenada collapsed on Dec. 28, plunging a cement truck at least 100 feet toward the sea. Geologists had warned for decades the area was unstable.

A champion surf dog helps military veterans and people with disabilities learn to surf, while also boosting morale and building confidence.