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Democratic leaders in California and Oregon are becoming more open to using involuntary psychiatric commitment to combat homelessness, drug abuse and untreated mental illness.

Six of the seven states that use water from the Colorado River proposed a way for the federal government to cut back on water use and protect dropping water levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell.

COVID-19 was supposed to bring more students to San Diego County’s community colleges. Instead, some campuses have been hit with steep declines.

The person "was severely immunocompromised and had been hospitalized," the health department said in a statement.

John Vercher trained in mixed martial arts as a young man. His novel, After the Lights Go Out, centers on a veteran MMA fighter who struggles to remember everyday things.

The San Diego County Library system obtained 7,000 Chromebook laptops and Wi-Fi hot spot devices available to check out with a county library card.

Namazi is on a hunger strike to mark the seventh anniversary of a prisoner swap that did not include him, and calling on Biden to free detainees in Iran. His lawyer spoke with NPR about those efforts.

The policy says corporal punishment will be used only when other forms of discipline have failed and then only with the superintendent's permission. The district had dropped the practice in 2001.

In Fairfax County, Va., the health department is training high school students to become health ambassadors in underserved communities and get a leg up on future careers in public health.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has approved one of the most contentious bills before him this year.