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In the wake of an $11 million mayor’s race, the San Diego City Ethics Commission is proposing a host of changes to local electioneering laws.

The remains of the first racehorse bred in California to earn more than $1 million was exhumed after nearly 50 years by a group of archeology students before being moved to Del Mar..

Twenty-four years ago, a San Diego man saved a fossil from being run over by a bulldozer. This week, it was finally identified as the skull of an unusual — and now extinct — porpoise.

The district attorney says the clerk assured her his filing with the state Supreme Court seeking to stop gay weddings was an attempt to clarify the law.

Activists with the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, which organized the protest, said a total of 16 men and 15 children were detained on Thursday. Most of the adults were born in Mexico.

It can generally take more than a month to get an appointment with a dermatologist. Kaiser Permanente is using telemedicine to screen patients and figure out which ones need to see a specialist.

A nonprofit partnership is working to take unused spaces in downtown San Diego and give them speedy makeovers, turning them into parks or something the public can use.

Contrary to widespread media reports, the new guidelines do not forbid agents from firing their weapons at rock throwers.

In a second report on the illegal sex trade in San Diego, a local teenager talks about her new documentary called "TRUTH."

The proposal will be presented in two weeks to the Economic Development and Intergovernmental Relations Committee, which would begin hammering out details.

In the first of two segments focusing on the illegal sex trade in San Diego, we'll discuss the results of the New Urban Institute study.

With just three weeks left to sign up under President Barack Obama's health care law, a major survey tracking the rollout finds that the uninsured rate keeps going down.

California won't be sanctioned for forgoing its old, multiple-choice standardized tests in favor of pilot testing new online exams in the state's public schools this year.

Researchers at San Diego State University have won a $4 million grant to enhance asthma education and treatment in Imperial County.

We've spent three years and more than $2 million for a Balboa Park party that may not happen. San Diego wants to purge official emails older than a year. Developers don't want to pay more for affordable housing. And it's spring, which means baseball!