A San Diego State University biologist is part of a team of scientists researching the recent discovery of one of the world's tiniest lizards, which were found on an island off Madagascar.

A march to remember the lives of migrants who have died crossing the U.S.-Mexico border gets underway Thursday in San Diego. The group plans to follow the international boundary to Arizona.

Services will be held Tuesday night for a 13-year old San Ysidro Middle School student shot and killed over the weekend in Tijuana. He was one of five males killed in what is being called an attack by organized crime.

Eight of 24 northbound lanes at the San Ysidro Port of Entry will be closed Monday. Port officials stress the closure will not affect border wait times.

The Encinitas City Council approved placing the Surfing Madonna at the entrance of Moonlight Beach Park. But there is one more hurdle artist Mark Patterson needs to get through before he brings the mosaic out of storage.

The use of ultralight planes to bring drugs across the U.S-Mexico border is not uncommon. But now, federal agents east of San Diego County say they've seized a private plane in an alleged human smuggling operation.

A string of arson fires in a San Diego neighborhood has residents worried. They plan to hold a series of emergency meetings to address their concerns.

San Diego's Metro Arson Strike Team has been called out a half dozen times in the past month to the University Heights neighborhood.

The FBI has declared the San Diego region a "high-intensity child prostitution area." The second annual Bi-national Forum to Address Human Trafficking in Chula Vista Thursday aimed to improve collaboration between agencies on both sides of the border to combat the illegal practice.

U.S Customs and Border Protection officers say they're catching more people along the border who are fleeing from the law.