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Schools across the Southwest are opening this month with smaller budgets and fewer resources, forcing districts to come up with creative ways to make up for huge monetary losses.

There are really only two ways to make Medicare cost less: Pay health care providers like doctors and hospitals less, or make Medicare patients pay more. Until now, neither has been very popular politically.

Most people think of a hacker as someone who breaks into computer networks, but many in the do-it-yourself movement have adopted the term for themselves. They're turning old typewriters into keyboards, slot machines into bartenders and suitcases into boomboxes — and their numbers are growing.

An environmental group released its grades for the quality of water at beaches in California. San Diego County beaches scored top marks during dry weather, but during wet weather the levels of harmful bacteria increased at county beaches.

President Obama's fiscal commission begins its final round of meetings Tuesday, which may or may not produce a plan to cut the nation's growing debt. Experts say a debt crisis could come in 18 months or 18 years. But either way, it's a frightening prospect.

The creation of the European Union and the advent of the euro currency have done little to dampen fierce nationalism across the continent. NPR concludes its series on Europe with a look at whether the euro, and the notion of European unity, can survive.

San Diego’s Public Utilities Department is hiring customer service representatives and adding a number of services to provide relief to water customers frustrated with the new billing system.

Millions of people are starting over after devastating floods. The World Bank says direct damage to property and crops will exceed $9 billion. While parts of the south are still underwater, most people in the northwest, where the floods began, have returned home. The slow pace of recovery and rehabilitation, however, has produced widespread disgust.

All workers from a crippled reactor at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, have been evacuated. Also, white smoke was rising from the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima Daichi power plant. The developments follow a new fire at an already fire-damaged reactor.

High levels of radiation were blamed for the evacuation. Japan's chief Cabinet secretary said white smoke was rising from the No. 3 reactor at the crippled Fukushima Daichi power plant. He said there may be a problem with the reactor's containment vessel. The developments follow a new fire at an already fire-damaged No. 4 reactor.