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An American woman arrested in Mexico on what appeared to be trumped-up charges of drug trafficking filed against her was finally set free last week. But the number of Mexican nationals who have been in custody without legal representation or a trial shows prisoner rights in Mexico continue to be problematic.

As the global financial system teetered on the edge of collapse a year ago this week, the Federal Reserve stepped in with unprecedented actions. Yet some lawmakers say the Fed should have done more to prevent the crisis.

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego City Council's Rules and Economic Development Committee today directed staff to develop an ordinance based on a proposal by Mayor Bob Filner to expand the city's prevailing wage requirements on municipal public works projects.

The government shutdown has taken a toll on the nation's economy and despite a deal that sidesteps a debt default and restarts the government (at least for a few months), growth forecasts for the last quarter of the year are being scaled back.

Conservative justices seemed unmoved by arguments in favor of requirement to buy insurance.

California’s legislative analyst says the state doesn’t need more prison medical facilities.

A federal judge Tuesday in San Diego will consider a challenge to the Sunrise Powerlink project.

This story is part of an ongoing project on commuting in America.

Happy Dodson and Taz Roman are bikers. Not cyclists, but the leather jacket and chained wallet kind of bikers. They're also members of a group called Bikers Against Child Abuse.

San Diego's military and other federal employees could lose pay. The county has the largest number of federal employees in the the country.