An application for permits required to build two hotels on the old Fat City restaurant property north of downtown San Diego was forwarded today to the chairman of the Centre City Development Corp. without recommendation after labor unions expressed opposition.

A form of psychotherapy intended to turn gay children straight would be banned in California under a bill that passed the State Senate Wednesday. California would be the first state to pass such a ban.

Democrat Scott Peters, an attorney and port commissioner, lent his campaign $1.25 million dollars in May. He’s now the top fundraiser in the race, approaching $2 million. Nearly 70 percent of that cash comes from his own bank account.

A bill that would expand California’s family and medical leave law passed the Assembly on a party line vote.

Beachgoers now have a fast and easy way to find out if the water at their favorite beach is safe to swim in.

A bill to help middle class families pay for California colleges and universities has passed the Assembly by a two-thirds vote.

The four contenders for the San Diego mayor's job verbally jousted today over their voting records, reliance on ballot measures and plans for port jobs in one of the last debates before Tuesday's primary election.

Fire crews have responded to a house fire in the Talmadge area. The fire was first reported shortly after 1:30 p.m. in the 4400 block of 51st Street near El Cajon Blvd, according to dispatchers.

Members of San Diego’s LGBT community say the pension reform measure on next week’s ballot would be harmful for gay couples.

More than 2500 cards and petitions were delivered to Governor Jerry Brown’s office demanding an end to California’s plans for a cap and trade program.

The California State Senate has approved a pair of bills intended to make inexpensive digital textbooks for popular courses available to college students. Both measures passed overwhelmingly Wednesday despite textbook industry opposition.

Sailors and Marines from the San Diego-based USS Makin Island volunteered at a dog shelter during a recent four-day port visit to Hong Kong.

An investigation was under way today into how a parolee fresh out of jail managed to evade security at Lindbergh Field and get onto a Los Angeles-bound plane without a ticket, authorities reported.

Workers today began removing the statue of a sailor kissing a nurse near the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier Museum on San Diego's downtown waterfront.

State budget cuts have reduced classes at California’s public universities and colleges. Some of San Diego’s private schools are looking to fill that void.

Brian Banks, a promising football player who was wrongly convicted of rape when he was 17, has been contacted by six NFL teams over the past two days. His conviction of rape and kidnapping charges was overturned last Thursday in a Los Angeles courtroom.

One of the only sure winners on this year's primary ballot is Mark Kersey, the unopposed candidate for San Diego City Council District 5.

A new exhibition at the Museum of Photographic Arts reveals the sights and sounds of New York's budding jazz scene during the late 1950s-1960s.

Jeri Dilno has spent her career working as a courageous political and social justice advocate on behalf of women’s and gay/lesbian rights. Her own military undesirable discharge in 1961 for being a lesbian led her to risk personal safety on behalf of gay and lesbian civil rights. Ms. Dilno is currently on the Board of Directors of LGBT Pride, serves as a member of the City’s Balboa Park Committee, which is an advisory board to City Council, and a member of the San Diego County Democratic Central Committee.

Photographs taken of military moms breastfeeding their babies in uniform are stirring up controversy on the Internet.

Larry T. Baza’s career as a professional arts administrator and advocate has been driven by the belief that access to the arts “is vitally important to a civilized society.” His work has included directorships of many local nonprofits including the Centro Cultural de la Raza, Sushi Performance and Visual Art, California Pacific Theatre and others. He has also participated as a consultant, grant panelist, site visitor or board member for: National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, Arizona Arts Commission, City of San Diego Commission for Arts and culture, California Association of Local Arts Agencies and more.

A dozen students at Monroe Clark Middle School in City Heights spent three months documenting bullying incidents on their campus in hopes of opening the eyes of their peers and teachers to stop the hatred.

The Citizens Review Board on Police Practices has responded to a San Diego County Grand Jury report which said the board is rife with cronyism, prejudice, intimidation and conflicts of interest. Incoming board chair Jim Kaese says the report contains errors, but the board is already addressing the issues.

The Camp Pendleton-based 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment is headed to Afghanistan this summer for a deployment of undetermined length.

The Department of Defense has identified the two American soldiers killed on Memorial Day when their helicopter crashed in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Son Jarocho is a musical style with roots in rural southern Mexico, but in recent years its popularity has surged in Mexican cities and in the U.S.

Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away — the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance.

The troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant operated for three decades with equipment that could have temporarily cut off the plant’s emergency power supply in the event of an earthquake, government filings revealed Tuesday.

U.S. soldiers are trying to deal a crippling blow to the Taliban in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni. It's one of the last major Taliban strongholds, but the American forces are trying to do the job on a short timetable.

California’s Democratic governor is weighing in on the San Diego Mayor’s race, but you may be surprised about which candidate he’s talking about.