A new special neonatal area for families opens next week at the Kaiser facility in Grantville.

When I went to record my Midday Movies segment about the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival at Tenth Avenue Theatre earlier this month, I met up with a group of ghost hunters on the trail of a spirit roaming the theater.

Customers are hoping regulators will not require them to continue to pay for the annual $1 billion cost of running the troubled San Onofre nuclear plant.

Beginning next week a recently bankrupt California city will become the first in the nation to enact “participatory budgeting.”

Two people are dead after a Texas Department of Public Safety sharpshooter fired on a runaway smuggler driving a truck near the border.

A new study measuring indoor air pollution in California childcare centers found the majority had above recommended levels of formaldehyde. Levels of other indoor air pollutants were for the most part similar to the average home.

Two San Diego County supervisors are poised to ask staff next week to take up an offer by the head of the state organization that operates the Del Mar Fairgrounds to explore potential partnerships that could lead to increased local oversight of the facility.

A San Diego principal gives up his hair to repay students for test score gains.

At one point a group of volunteers could get an initiative on California’s ballot. But this election, single wealthy individuals are personally bankrolling four of the 11 propositions.

First lady Michelle Obama urged supporters of her husband's presidency today to stay focused and energetic over the final 11 days of his re-election campaign, in comments at the La Jolla home of Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs and his wife, Joan.

Roughly a dozen F/A-18 jets from MCAS Miramar's Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 314 have been sent to an undisclosed country in the Middle East due to U.S. tensions with Iran, according to the U-T San Diego.

Back in May the federal Indian Health Service said it was finalizing a policy that would make emergency contraception more accessible to American Indian women. Advocates say they're still waiting.

Polling in the San Diego Mayor's race is all over the place. The Chargers have lost their last two games in embarrassing fashion. A few parents are tense over yoga in their public schools. And the BBC program "World Have Your Say" comes to Oceanside.

While much of what will happen on Election Day is now unknowable, we can predict with certainty that President Obama won't win a majority of the white vote.

Law enforcement officers throughout San Diego County will be out in force today looking for suspected drunken drivers as part of a Halloween crackdown, according to sheriff's officials.

"We're not trying to hype it," National Weather Service meterologist Paul Kocin tells Bloomberg News. "What we're seeing in some of our models is a storm at an intensity that we have not seen in this part of the country in the past century."

The U.S. returned more than 4,000 stolen antiquities to Mexico on Thursday. Most of the archeological pieces date back before Europeans landed in North America.

Audie Cornish talks to sportswriter Stefan Fatsis about National Basketball Association commissioner David Stern, who has announced he will step down in early 2014.

More than a year after popular protests rocked the Arab world, U.S. intelligence officials are struggling to understand the myriad of Islamist groups that have filled the vacuum.

As the election draws closer, the economy and jobs remain top issues in the presidential race.

The president has been relatively mum during the campaign about what he would do if given a second term. He outlined more specific ideas this week — but he hasn't explained how he would get those ideas through Congress.

The ACLU is suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security regarding photo restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Orchestra Nova has canceled the remaining concerts in the 2012-2013 season after sudden resignation of conductor and impasse in labor talks with local musicians union.

Strong gusty winds are expected to blow through valley and mountain areas in San Diego County today, raising a risk of wildfire, according to the National Weather Service.

San Diego-based Petco opened its seventh Pooch Hotel in its own backyard.

An ex-Marine from Hemet who smuggled a machine gun into the country from Iraq, where he served in combat, was handed a two-year federal prison sentence Thursday. Joel Cleve Miller, 40, was convicted in June of illegally possessing an automatic weapon — an AK-47 that he told friends had once been used by Saddam Hussein’s royal guard.

After ACLU lawsuit, Escondido agrees not to disperse protesters who stake out public sidewalks to record police conducting checkpoints.

With less than two weeks to go until the election, the latest campaign finance reports show accelerated fundraising and spending in city and congressional elections.

Shootings by the U.S. Border Patrol, justified or not, cause outrage in border communities and take years to resolve.

Wildfires in 2003 and 2007 helped fuel an ongoing push to develop better and more sophisticated firefighting tools, but that drive has yet to squeeze out one fire detection method that has served firefighters for decades.

San Diego's inaugural week-long celebration of African cuisine continues through Sunday. KPBS arts reporter Angela Carone visits one of the restaurants participating in African Restaurant Week to find out what's cooking.

An Army brigadier general will face charges of sodomy and sex crimes next month in a preliminary hearing to determine if there is enough evidence for him to be put on trial, Fort Bragg officials said Thursday.