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Tent encampments along the side of Sports Arena Blvd. in the Midway District of San Diego, CA on July 26, 2023.

Police can begin enforcing San Diego's camping ban on Sunday

The Unsafe Camping Ordinance prohibits tent encampments in public places when shelter beds are available.

2023's Tiny Desk Contest unique, winning band performs a range of emotional and creative songs.

Reza Baluchi was taken in by the U.S. Coast Guard last week while trying to cross the Atlantic in a "hydro pod" made of buoys. Authorities in Flagler County, Fla., responded to Baluchi and his vessel in 2021 and posted photos of his vessel on Facebook.

Coast Guard arrests a man trying to run a giant hamster wheel across the Atlantic

It was the fourth time the Coast Guard has intercepted Reza Baluchi on his attempts to self-propel his homemade vessel to destinations including Bermuda, New York and London.

San Diego artist Bhavna Mehta's "Poliovirus 1" is a 2020 work of embroidery and beads on a 1984 X-ray. The work is part of "Script/Rescript," an exhibition on view at SDSU Art Gallery through Dec. 8, 2022.

Artists rewrite the script on disability

"Script/Rescript" is a new exhibition at SDSU Art Gallery featuring ten visual artists with disabilities from across the country and Mexico. The works celebrate rescripting the medicalized narrative of disability.

Social worker Tanzila Uddin leads a workshop on journaling at a senior center in Queens Village in NYC. These gatherings can identify older adults who may need more mental health treatment.

Call it 'stealth mental health' — some care for elders helps more without the label

Fewer than half of older adults who need mental health care or treatment for substance abuse get it. Many therapists don't feel qualified to treat older people, and insurance coverage is spotty, too.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on expanding access to mental health care in the East Room at the White House on Tuesday.

'Gimme a break!' Biden blasts insurance hassles for mental health treatment

President Biden unveiled a set of proposed new rules for health insurance companies designed to push the industry to cover treatment for mental health problems on par with how it covers medical care.

Rice's whales are one of the most recently discovered whale species in the world — and already one of the most endangered. But protections for the Gulf of Mexico species have been repeatedly delayed.

Only 51 of these U.S. whales remain. Little has been done to prevent their extinction

Rice's whales are one of the world's newly discovered whale species – and already one of the most endangered. Protections for the whales in the Gulf of Mexico are not coming fast.

Andrii Smolenskyi and his wife, Alina Smolenska, on May 26, 2022. Andrii never wanted to be a soldier. But when Russia invaded Ukraine last year, he refused to flee Kyiv and instead stayed to defend his country.

Love, war and loss: How one soldier in Ukraine hopes to be made whole again

An artillery shell should have killed Andrii Smolenskyi in May. Instead, the blast tore off both of his arms above the elbow and destroyed his eyes. Now he's fighting to put his life back together.

Orville Mendoza and Nik Walker in The Old Globe’s production of "Crime and Punishment, A Comedy."

'Crime and Punishment' as a comedy?

Dostoevsky's epic novel about murder, morality and suffering is now a 90-minute comic romp at The Globe.

Virginia Johnson, 73, the outgoing artistic director of Dance Theatre of Harlem poses in one of the company's ballet studios at 466 West 152nd street in New York City, N.Y. on Thursday, June 22, 2023. She joined the company in 1969 as a founding member and prima ballerina, returning to it as the Artistic Director from 2009-2023.

Virginia Johnson on her time at Dance Theatre of Harlem: 'It was love'

When Virginia Johnson joined the Dance Theatre of Harlem, it was often confused with the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. This week Johnson retires as artistic director of the pioneering company.

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