San Diego State battled valiantly against a quick and determined UConn team, but fell short, 72 to 67. The Aztecs were eliminated from the NCAA Tournament.

A new report by the Pew Hispanic Center says Hispanics accounted for more than half of the nation's population growth in the last decade.

As Home Post reported last week, the United States military is helping the families of servicemembers evacuate from Japan. The evacuation is voluntary, but that doesn’t mean the decision to go hasn’t prompted a lot of soul-searching, especially when the family pet is involved.

The latest in a spite of early spring storms doused the San Diego area with mild showers early today before moving off and giving the region a welcome -- if short-lived -- respite from blustery conditions.

San Diego voters could see dueling pension-reform measures on the June 2012 ballot, as the city tries to reduce its budget deficit.

The Australian outback is the driest place on the driest inhabited continent on the planet. Yet once every ten years, rains flood into dried-up river beds and head inland to create the largest lake in Australia, and 100,000 pelicans -- a third of all the pelicans in Australia -- arrive for the event. But what exactly triggers their journey? NATURE looks for answers to questions researchers are only now beginning to unravel.

A senior Pentagon official told NPR the handover could happen as soon as today.

About 30 to 40 percent of San Diego fifth-, seventh- and ninth-graders were able to meet all the fitness criteria in a six-stage test, scoring slightly better than students across the state but highlighting a need a to improve children's health, California's schools chief announced today.

A new poll from the Public Policy Institute of California finds support is eroding for a special election and for Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to extend taxes increases.

North County residents will hear noise from live-fire exercises on Camp Pendleton this coming weekend, base officials announced today.

A city that has taken numerous steps to crack down on illegal immigration is now joining a string of Southern California municipalities that are signing up to tap a federal database aimed at tighter scrutiny of employees' immigration status.

Music, dance and craft beer...we've got the makings of the great weekend preview today...and we'll even throw in a bit of a brough-ha-ha over large nude paintings.

Most of us know some lawyer jokes, but not many of us know lawyers who tell jokes. Tonight, the annual LAF-off comedy competition in San Diego features lawyers doing stand-up...outside the courtroom. We'll get a preview of this raucous night of comedy, and learn it's all for a good cause.

Education officials say poor academic performance may threaten U.S. national security. We'll examine a new push by the U.S. Department of Education and some military officials to revamp the No Child Left Behind Act. They're backing up their argument with some sobering statistics about the large percentage of young people who can't qualify for military service.

How can we make a sustainable energy future if we don't know the history of our energy consumption? We speak to Glaciologist Dr. Richard Alley about the new PBS series "Earth-The Operators' Manual."

What will it take for the Aztecs to defeat the UConn Huskies in tonight's Sweet 16 matchup? We talk to Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton about the biggest game in SDSU basketball history.

Rebels are disorganized; allies are unwilling to expand strikes to go beyond protecting civilians.

The San Ysidro port of entry is a constant sea of U.S.-bound vehicles and travelers—a complicated daily operation requiring an army of customs agents.

Two homeless people have moved into apartments under a special program called "Project 25." The pilot project hopes to get people off the streets and save money in emergency services.

A Syrian doctor takes her San Diego experience walking for a cure for breast cancer back home, prompting a move to destigmatize the disease.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched a two-step review of all U.S. nuclear power plants in the wake of the nuclear crisis in Japan.