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San Diego’s biotech and innovation industry faces the new year with rising competition from overseas.

Susan Stamberg and Murray Horwitz bring four generation-spanning Hanukkah stories to life.

Japan was rocked Thursday by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake just off its coast. Technically, that strong shaking was an aftershock of the devastating 9.0 temblor that hit the nation nearly a month ago. But it wasn't surprising, says Volkan Sevilgen with the U.S. Geological Survey, who explains the science of aftershocks.

Imagine a friend of a friend brings his family to stay with you -- his family of tiny survivalists. For weeks or months you all live quietly side by side with no problems. You share meals. Your kids play together.

At 10:17 this morning, 9.5 million people across California are expected to drop cover and hold. It’s part of California’s annual earthquake drill: The Great California Shakeout.

For the last four years, the Kepler space telescope has been searching for distant relatives of the Earth. Today, NASA announced that their planet-hunting spacecraft is no longer able to keep up that search.

The interest rate on government-backed student loans is going to jump from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent Monday.

Major changes are coming to classrooms across San Diego County and California this year. Schools are switching to new math and English standards that promise to improve students’ critical thinking and to better prepare them for college and career.

In one week, voters in New Jersey go to the polls in a special primary election for a U.S. Senate seat.

Long before smart watches became the latest pursuit for tech companies, Gordon Moore of Intel was experimenting with wristwatch computers. Intel's co-founder and his colleagues built a line of chip-powered watches in the late '70s. The concept was visionary, but the business was a failure. Moore now keeps a memento that he calls his "$15 million watch."