Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, R-San Diego, and San Diego City Councilman Tony Young announced today they will host a seven-month "listening tour" geared toward improving public education in the region.

Home Post Blog: The climate in Iraq is growing increasingly dangerous because militants have stepped up their attacks on U.S. troops and bases.

We'll get local reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court decision to release more than 33,000 inmates from California prisons. Governor Brown's realignment proposal would transfer non-violent low-level state prisoners to county jails, what would that mean for San Diego?

How should the county's health services and public safety officials prepare for the impact of climate change? We speak to Paula Murray, with the County of San Diego's Division of Public Health Services, about how increases in wildfires, flooding and heatwaves could impact public health in the future.

How will the San Diego Unified School District benefit from an expected $6.6 billion boost in state revenue? We talk to school board president Richard Barrera about the governor's revised budget proposal, and whether the district will change its plan to lay off more than 700 teachers.

Rescue crews were using dogs to search foot-by-foot through the wreckage of Joplin, Mo., hoping to find people who might have survived the deadliest tornado in decades.

Thomas E. Hom is a community leader and philanthropist. He was the first Asian American elected to the San Diego City Council in 1962 as deputy mayor, and later served in the California State Assembly. Mr. Hom is also a successful entrepreneur, having been president of Tom Hom & Associates Realtors, Tom Hom Investment Corporation and chairman of The Tom Hom Group. He is also the founder of the Hom Family Foundation that has helped launch the Chinese Historical Museum.

Robin Tarr is founder of the Jonathan Tarr Foundation, education-based nonprofit that provides scholarships to a diverse population of underserved boys and girls. The Jonathan Tarr Foundation was established in memory of her son Jonathan who died in a tragic car accident at 17.

The deaths of four family members found at a home in Southeast San Diego, are being investigated as a murder-suicide, according to police.

Fellow horror fan and guest blogger Miguel Rodriguez will be hosting a screening of "Theater of Blood" (screening for free on Wednesday, May 25, at 6:15pm at the San Diego Public Library Auditorium, 820 E Street) to honor what would have been horror icon Vincent Price's hundredth birthday this year.

In the immediate aftermath of the storm, people in Joplin were just starting to get over their shock and still nervously discussing the latest increases in the death toll. For those who survived, that's all that matters right now.

Cancer patients may benefit from a new treatment center in La Jolla equipped with the latest generation of radiation technology.

Sheriffs, police chiefs and judges from the Rio Grande Valley have been charged with crimes. One expert said it is just a part of life in the impoverished area near the U.S.-Mexico border.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ruling yesterday that could see thousands of California inmates released. At issue is whether prisons are so crowded that inmates don't have access to health care and mental health services.

A San Diego researcher says La Niña may be partially to blame for the deadly tornado outbreak in the South and Midwest. More than 450 people have died in recent weeks from some of the largest and most powerful twisters on record.

A dozen human egg donors is all its going to take to open a new type of stem cell bank in Carlsbad.