A plan to install a 65-foot pole that will fly a rainbow flag over Hillcrest -- home to San Diego's vibrant gay and lesbian community -- was unanimously approved today by the City Council.

Mark Zuckerberg stands to make billions of dollars this week as Facebook goes public. But he’s not alone. The state of California expects to make billions off Facebook’s initial public offering too.

Last week, members of the Poway Unified School District Foundation took fundraising proposals to the district’s school board that included corporate sponsorships for things like technology, sports teams and school transportation.

In the third season, Garrow continues to champion the rights of prisoners against the power of the State. Andrew Buchan, Alun Armstrong and Lyndsey Marshall star in this series inspired by actual legal cases from the late 18th century. In the third episode, Garrow is confronted with an impossible choice: to expose British colonial brutality in open court or to re-unite Lady Sarah with her son. In the final episode, a vicious riot erupts after polling has closed in the Westminster constituency.

Smokers can choose from an array of services to help them quit for good.

Backers of the proposed Plaza de Panama project in Balboa Park say their opponents are trying to scare them into dropping the plan.

A woman accused of involvement in the death of a 22-year-old military wife in Fallbrook last month pleaded not guilty today to a murder charge.

A former Mexican law enforcement official pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in San Diego to aiding members of a violent Tijuana-based drug cartel in a case prosecutors said included helping traffickers get away with a double homicide in 2010.

Follow famed paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey and his wife, Meave, daughter Louise and their colleagues as they work in the arid northern regions of Kenya’s Turkana Basin to unravel the mysteries of human evolution. While one of the Leakeys’ goals is to demonstrate the complexity and truth of human evolution, they also seek to show how the qualities that we proudly call human were all born in Africa.

Camp Pendleton Marine Sgt. Christopher Farias will receive the United States' second highest medal for combat valor on Friday, when Navy Undersecretary Robert Work awards him the Navy Cross at a Camp Pendleton ceremony.

The amphibious transport dock USS San Diego is scheduled to open for three days of public tours at Navy Pier today.

A rope barrier designed to discourage people from disturbing harbor seals at the Children's Pool during pupping season was removed today.

California Sen. Barbara Boxer asked federal regulators Tuesday for details about the troubled steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear power plant, where a long-running probe into tube damage has kept the reactors sidelined for months.

"What's wrong with me? Got PTSD. These pills ain't working, man, I still can't think." Those are the words of Iraq War veteran Leo Dunson, who has found rapping about his inner war wounds helps him heal.

How can a fire district with some 80-plus employees outsource the very job it was formed to do? San Miguel Consolidated Fire District in the East County is in negotiations with CAL FIRE to do just that.

Good news for military families looking to visit our country's national parks this summer - or anytime. A new program that starts Saturday lets troops obtain a free “America the Beautiful” pass (an $80 value) just by showing their military ID card.

A report commissioned by an environmental group warned Tuesday that running California's San Onofre nuclear plant at reduced power would not resolve problems with badly worn tubing that have kept its twin reactors offline for more than three months - and might make it worse.

Gov. Brown's latest budget plan for the fiscal year that begins July 1 proposes $8.3 billion in spending cuts to close a revised deficit of $15.7 billion deficit, an amount equal to 17 percent of the state's entire general fund.

Economist says temporary solutions to California's budget deficit haven't worked.

Take a tour of the new building rising up above Petco Park downtown, the New Central Library.

Lately, key economic indicators seem to be moving sideways. The lack of clear improvement or real weakness has turned the presidential race into a seeming statistical tie.