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Fans get ready for another season of Padres baseball. Sports columnist Jay Paris tells them what they can look forward to after the team's disappointing record last year.

Solar advocate said California regulators gave consumers a victory this week.

There was less to the Balboa Park party plan than met the eye -- much less. There's a campaign afoot to raise the minimum wage in San Diego. And San Diego's approach to housing the homeless may lead to penalties.

The Arizona Wildcats eliminated the Aztecs 70-64, but the SDSU men's basketball team did far better this year than expected.

San Diego's tourist economy grew last year, but not enough to satisfy local tourism officials.

Douglas J. Crawford, who is running against incumbent Judge Ronald Prager, faces a 90-day suspension for threatening to report an opponent in a civil suit to the Internal Revenue Service.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have had a lasting effect on San Diego's military community, including kids. A new University of San Diego study focuses on the children of wounded service members.

A conversation with former San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders and current Chamber of Commerce CEO about a range of topics from a California-Mexico trade initiative to the Balboa Park Centennial.

An ideological and infrastructural bent that favors established transitional housing in San Diego may make it hard to move towards the newer federally endorsed model of housing the homeless first.

San Diego Public Utilities officials will present a plan called "Pure Water San Diego" to a city council committee Wednesday. It calls for turning wastewater into reusable potable water by 2035. We explain the plan and its challenges.

Top urban poverty scholars will look at ways to combat poverty at a conference this week at USC, where a photography exhibition gives a glimpse of what everyday life is like for City Heights residents.

For 15 years, Schnell's other reality has been among the city's homeless. He's the leader of the Police Department's Homeless Outreach Team, or HOT, a specific set of officers who work with the city's homeless population.

Small business owners are beginning to say the California business climate is improving.

Federal and local agencies are conducting investigations into charges of police misconduct in the San Diego Police Department.

A discussion of the big questions that face SDPD, an investigation into assisted living facilities and Sea World's game of defense.