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‘Like caged birds.’ Migrant kids held in San Diego short-term immigration detention for weeks

Migrant children are being held at detention facilities longer than the three-day target set by longstanding government policy despite fewer encounters with families at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Gil Barel in her son’s room in Pasadena on Aug. 2, 2026. Barel and her family are still waiting for their home, a duplex they had rented for eight years before the January 2025 Eaton Fire, to be cleaned up and free of toxic materials before they move back in.

California could be first in the nation to create smoke-damage standards

When a home is left standing after a wildfire, survivors and insurers battle over testing and cleanup. California lawmakers passed two bills that aim to change that.

Students walk through the MiraCosta College campus in Oceanside on Sept. 26, 2024.

Community colleges suddenly oppose plan to let them offer more bachelor’s degrees

Two bills sent to Newsom set new rules for determining when colleges can create bachelor’s degrees and how many they can offer.

Poet Sofía Favela Magro stands for a portrait inside the Tijuana bookstore, Libros Cafe y Jazz, on Aug. ‎21, ‎2026,

City of Poetry: Tijuana's 28th Annual National Poetry Prize open for submissions

Mexican poet and Nobel laureate Octavio Paz says poetry makes real “the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.” Tijuana is proudly continuing that tradition with a national poetry prize and the window for submissions is now open.

City of Poetry: Tijuana's 28th Annual National Poetry Prize open for submissions

Mexican poet and Nobel laureate Octavio Paz says poetry makes real “the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.” Tijuana is proudly continuing that tradition with a national poetry prize and the window for submissions is now open.

African American girl concentrates on acrylic color picture painting on canvas with students group in art classroom, creative learning with talents and skills in elementary school studio education, in an undated photo.

California schools are sitting on arts money. A change in law might get them to spend it

The proposed changes aim to allay schools’ apprehension about spending their arts money granted through an initiative voters passed in 2022.

Asian American Dance Festival co-founders grace shinhae jun, PhD and Joyce Lien Kushner are shown in the Malashock Dance Studio in Liberty Station, San Diego on Sept. 1, 2026.

Asian American Dance Festival empowers artists to connect through movement

The second annual Asian American Dance Festival is underway in San Diego, bringing Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders movement artists together to share their stories and history through dance, from hip-hop and breakdancing to Odissi.

Gov. Gavin Newsom joins local officials to sign legislation intended to modernize the financing and delivery of affordable housing in California during a press conference in Oakland on July 13, 2026.

Why a signature Newsom power move flopped in the last days of the Legislative session

The lame-duck governor’s penchant for pushing last-minute demands on California’s Legislature didn’t work out as it has in years past.

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