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This is an archive of breaking news about the coronavirus pandemic.

The threat of wildfire is rising with the temperature as an unseasonable warm spell rolls into the San Diego region.

The quake was centered in Anza at 6:53 p.m. and was felt from Oceanside to Chula Vista to Alpine.

California has more than 150,000 homeless people, the most in the nation, and that population is considered disproportionately at risk from the COVID-19 virus.

Because of worries about flooding, the border wall is often built as much as a mile north of the Rio Grande, leaving thousands of isolated acres between the water and the wall.

Because of worries about flooding, the border wall is often built as much as a mile north of the Rio Grande, leaving thousands of isolated acres between the water and the wall.

The 3.1-magnitude temblor, centered about 10 miles northeast of Mount Laguna in the Anza-Borrego area, struck shortly after 5 p.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

As a greater proportion of college-educated immigrants flock to California, they face barriers to getting good jobs — a “brain waste” estimated to cost California and other states billions of dollars per year in lost individual earnings and tax revenues.

Authors Mike Wells and Marie Simovich will be speaking about their new book, “A Natural History of the Anza-Borrego Region: Then and Now," Friday at the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park Visitor Center.

A new technique, dubbed 'prime editing,' appears to make it even easier to make very precise changes in DNA. It's designed to overcome the limits of the CRISPR gene editing tool.