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San Diego County is home to nearly 80,000 Iraqis and thousands of veterans of Operation Iraqi freedom — two groups with a lot at stake in the future of Iraq.
Tony Gwynn, whose smile and swing defined baseball in San Diego for more than 30 years, has died. He was 54.
The City Council approved the settlement in an April closed session and will consider final approval on Tuesday.
Over the weekend and into Monday, the billionaire Koch brothers and supporters converged on the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point.
The public will get a chance to weigh in on a proposal to settle the costs of the San Onofre nuclear power plant shutdown.
With diabetes on the rise, health providers at Scripps' Project Dulce are experimenting with ways to help people manage their disease.
The Board of Supervisors will review Tuesday the aftermath of last month’s fires and discuss recommendations to better prepare the region for the upcoming fire season.
A San Diego Superior Court judge has denied an injunction that would have put the Barrio Logan community plan into the courtroom.
San Diego Fire & Rescue has 32 reserve engines in case of a major wildfire, but only three of them are ready to roll. The intrigue surrounding the San Diego Opera's demise is somewhat, um, operatic. Ensenada is facing a water shortage.
Due to a severe water crisis, many of Ensenada’s 320,000 inhabitants now only get water from their taps two or three times a week. The governor has declared a state of emergency because of the shortage.
The Environmental Health Coalition is asking a San Diego Superior Court judge to take the Barrio Logan community plan off the ballot and into the courtroom.
Calls to the nation's poison control centers involving e-cigarettes rose from one per month in September 2010 to 215 in February 2014, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Twenty years ago this month, a brutal massacre took place in Rwanda where political rivalry between Hutus and Tusis tribes led to the genocide and 1 million deaths. A San Diego company is one of many working in the region helping Rwandans thrive and heal.
The Encinitas City Council voted recently to buy the Pacific View Elementary school site for $10 million in an effort to prevent a prime piece of public land from falling into private developers hands.
Doctors and consumers concerned about a powerful new painkiller will protest at the Irvine office of the Federal Drug Administration.