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Meet the 39th governor, same as the 34th governor. Beating back a billionaire Republican political novice, venerable Democrat Jerry Brown will reprise his role as California governor in an economic climate far less rosy than his original tenure 30 years ago.

Many notable people left the world in 2014, including some well-known San Diego figures.

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that a group of economists predicted the jobless rate would be 7.7 percent in November 2011. The March jobless rate continued a positive trend toward that target, with 20 months left to go before Election Day.

Last year, Reynosa — a dusty, sprawling city of half a million people across the border from McAllen, Texas — was a relatively peaceful part of the country. Now it's one of the most dangerous places in Mexico.

Marriage — it's so last century. A new report out on Wednesday finds the share of all U.S. adults who are married has dropped to its lowest on record, at just 51 percent. If the trend continues, the institution will soon lose its majority status in American life.

President Obama unveiled a multitrillion-dollar spending plan Monday, pledging an intensified effort to combat high unemployment and asking Congress to quickly approve new job-creation efforts that would boost the deficit to a record-breaking $1.56 trillion.

Japan's prime minister calls the tsunami and its aftermath "Japan's most severe crisis since the war ended 65 years ago." The full scale of destruction from the quake and tsunami is not yet known, but the country has been rattled by more than 150 aftershocks since the initial quake.

There's a man in Phoenix with a political playbook that has become valuable. So valuable, the Obama campaign believes it could help clinch the president's re-election.

The city of San Diego owes hundreds of thousands of dollars to people who live downtown. While city officials acknowledge these overcharges take place, they haven’t yet repaid anybody.

The dust is still settling after the California budget passed last week. And one of the questions on a lot of peoples' minds is how redevelopment projects will be affected. Redevelopment money - the property tax increment that local governments can keep for building projects in their own communities - has been a major driver of economic growth.