San Diego County's unemployment rate decreased to 4% in April, down from a revised 4.2% in March and above the year-ago estimate of 3.8%, according to figures released today by the state Employment Development Department.
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San Diego County officials are asking the federal government to declare a state of emergency because of the ongoing environmental sewage crisis.
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The company will shed 415 workers by mid-July.
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Slavery is often associated with the South. But in her new book “California: A Slave State,” historian Jean Pfaelzer looks at 250 years of slavery.
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Federal regulators say Amazon uses manipulative techniques to enroll shoppers into Prime memberships that are purposefully hard to cancel.
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Experts from within and outside OceanGate worried about the safety and development of the Titan as far back as 2018, years before its inaugural dive. One tells NPR its disappearance isn't a surprise.
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OceanGate's expeditions to the Titanic were meant to herald a new era for deep-sea tourism, but the company's missing submersible has instead underscored the danger these journeys can bring.
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The strike by Teamsters local 542 members is now a month old. It involves drivers of ACCESS paratransit and minibuses.
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Imposter scams are top U.S. fraud now: Con artists are using new technology to get real time information plus voice cloning and caller ID spoofing to make it even harder to tell truth from fiction.
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An American Airlines plane was ordered to cancel its landing after a Delta plane that had been cleared for take-off was still on the runway. The FAA is investigating how close the planes got.
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The Recording Academy, the organization behind the Grammy Awards, rolled out new rules around AI ahead of next year's show — as the technology rapidly advances.
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