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Your tax form could be a fast track to getting signed up for subsidized health insurance or Medicaid in certain states.

A smart move on tax day: Sign up for health insurance using your state's tax forms

Paying taxes can be agonizing. So can shopping for health insurance. But a handful of states have made enrolling in subsidized or free coverage a little easier for people when they file their taxes

Latinos represent roughly 19% of the U.S. population. Yet a Nielsen study shows they account for 42% of the country's most-watched content on streaming services.

Latino viewers heavily influence the popularity of streaming shows, a study finds

A new study shows that Latino-led content attracted new viewers to streaming platforms and helped make shows and films more popular.

A hand wash station sits on a sidewalk along Broadway street in the city of San Diego, April 10, 2023.

San Diego adds hand washing stations, no additional bathrooms, to combat uptick in hepatitis A cases

City of San Diego officials added 10 more hand washing stations in areas near homeless encampments following an increase in hepatitis A cases.

A 2022 rendering of the SDSU Mission West housing development.

Chelsea selected as first affordable housing developer in SDSU Mission West

The project will consist of one-bedroom, two-bedroom, three-bedroom and four-bedroom units designed around the Stadium Station trolley stop and public transit.

The entrance to the San Diego Humane Society is pictured, Sept. 18, 2006.

Over capacity humane society offers gift card incentive for dog foster parents

The San Diego Humane Society Monday unveiled an incentive program for people to foster large dogs, due to the organization's record number of sheltered adult dogs.

Some Amoxicillin products are hard to find on pharmacy shelves as a nationwide shortage continues.

Strep is bad right now — and an antibiotic shortage is making it worse

Strep throat is more prevalent this year, and amoxicillin manufacturers didn't make enough of the antibiotic to go around.

Viktor and Liubov Lada in the kitchen of their new apartment. The couple was at home when their previous apartment was hit by Russian artillery.

Ukraine's elderly often remain behind; here's how they've survived a year of war

Millions of elderly Ukrainians have remained behind since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022. The country has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war.

A road sign warns of the potential for flooding in an underpass that has never been open to traffic in the Mission Valley neighborhood of San Diego on March 5, 2022.

35 years, 3 lawsuits and millions spent: Why a Mission Valley underpass remains unfinished

Despite the obstacles to building in Mission Valley, the community will likely keep growing, according to an 2019 environmental impact report that predicted that the neighborhood would add 50,000 residents by 2050.

For over 20 years, Dr. Daniel Bausch has responded to disease outbreaks, spending months at a time treating patients with diseases such as dengue, yellow fever, Lassa fever and Ebola. Now he's focusing on the importance of diagnostics. It's "one of the key aspects of preparedness," he says.

This doctor fought Ebola in the trenches. Now he's got a better way to stop diseases

Dr. Daniel Bausch says of his work, "You realize that's all on the response side." He's come to appreciate that "the impact is with trying to change the system."

Chelsea Manning had to fight to transition in prison. She wants better for others

Manning first came to public scrutiny and was incarcerated for leaking classified information. She aims to use that attention to shed light on the struggles trans people face in U.S. prisons.

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