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Arizona’s Proposition 120 is the latest skirmish in a decades-old, federal-state tug-of-war. The State Sovereignty Act, as it’s called, would amend the Arizona Constitution to grant the state control over millions of acres of public land -- including the Grand Canyon.

Jerry Schad, whose comprehensive guide to hiking trails in San Diego County was a must-have tabletop book for the area's outdoors fans, died today at age 61.

The Latino Decisions study finds Hispanics care more about economic issues, and not moral topics, when they cast ballots.

A San Diego State University biologist is part of a team of scientists researching the recent discovery of one of the world's tiniest lizards, which were found on an island off Madagascar.

Winning the Texas 23rd Congressional District means much more than adding another party vote in Congress -- it’s a window into the future of politics in Texas.

Airs Saturday, June 16, 2012 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV

Thousands of San Diego Unified high school seniors will graduate around the city today. One grad's walk across the stage is part of a long journey from a refugee camp to Stanford University.

The country was just beginning to worry about nuclear fallout, and the Air Force wanted to reassure people that it was OK to use atomic weapons. And so on July 19, 1957, five Air Force officers stood on a patch of ground in the Nevada desert and waited for the bomb to drop.

The sun unleashed a powerful solar flare early Tuesday, the largest in nearly five years.

Some experts are concerned that access to genomic information could stoke fears and invade privacy.