The magnitude-7.2 earthquake that struck near Calexico on Easter Sunday shifted the Earth's crust in the area about 31 inches downward and to the south, according to radar images and data collected by researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Many San Diegans got mail from Walmart this week urging them to oppose a San Diego City Councilman's attempt to create tougher rules for large retailers.

A fast-moving brush fire spread over brushy open terrain west of Palomar Mountain this afternoon, blackening scores of acres and prompting residential evacuations but causing no structural damage or injuries.

Two UC San Diego researchers were awarded grants totaling $2.5 million today from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

San Diego County Supervisors approved an ordinance to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries that makes it difficult to site a dispensary in the unincorporated area.

Every three years the world's best young harpists face-off in the USA International Harp Competition. "Harp Dreams" follows several contestants from Russia, France, Switzerland Japan and the United States, as they hone their skills to compete for the grand prize: a performance and recording career and a one-of-a-kind concert harp.

The number of cases of whooping cough in San Diego County is on the rise, and state health officials today declared the disease a epidemic stage in California.

San Diego-based artist Michael Trigilio, whose Neighborhood Public Radio project was featured in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, has a new film on American Buddhism screening at MCASD. He'll also be at SDMA this Thursday creating a bold sound space. Culture Lust contributor Jen Paton explains.

A grocery store chain and major cola company said today they are donating more than a half million dollars for beach clean up, dune restoration, and recycling efforts at state park beaches in Southern California.

President Obama has accepted Gen. Stanley McChrystal's resignation as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan and is replacing him with Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command, the president announced Wednesday.

California voters will weigh in this November about whether to postpone the state’s landmark greenhouse gas law.

We'll find out what our Film Club critics think of the latest "Toy Story" installment and discuss the Sundance award-winning "Winter's Bone." Also on deck, the Tilda Swinton vehicle "I Am Love," and the movie version of a pulp classic, "The Killer Inside Me."

A local community newspaper, the OB Rag, has stirred up a hornet's nest in Ocean Beach. The OB Rag's blog posts encouraging a local store to stop selling stickers that say "Welcome to Ocean Beach/Please Don't Feed Our Bums," has divided the community over how to deal with its local homeless population. We speak to the blogger who originally wrote about the controversial stickers, and the executive director of the Regional Task Force on Homelessness.

We discuss "Toy Story 3."

Only the guy who brought you The Linkery could dream up a menu that includes Micheladas alongside pork belly and quail egg terrine and Tosti-locos. Culture Lust contributor Meredith Hattam pays a visit to El Take It Easy, Jay Porter's newest North Park eatery. Bonus - there's art involved!

More than two weeks after the June Primary some local races are still not decided. KPBS political correspondent Gloria Penner updates us on election results where the margin of victory is razor thin.

Medical researchers are meeting this week in New Orleans to discuss the health effects of the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But most of the discussion is about what isn't known.

Dozens of local high school students rallied Tuesday at Border Patrol headquarters in Chula Vista, demanding justice over two recent deaths along the Mexican border.

Time is running out for San Diego’s downtown redevelopment arm. The Center City Development Corporation is nearing the limit on how much tax money it can collect. But a move by the city council last night could buy CCDC some more time.

The San Diego Unified Board of Education tapped Bill Kowba to be the district's next school superintendent. The trustees made the announcement during their meeting on Tuesday. Their decision came sooner than expected.