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The Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia is visiting San Diego to take part in the annual Gandhi Memorial Lecture at UC San Diego. Ambassador Robert O. Blake Jr. is fresh from addressing the UN General Assembly and busy with preparations for the President Obama's first visit to India.

Culture Lust contributor Aaryn Belfer has a daughter who loves princesses. She thought the new animated "The Princess and the Frog" would round out her daughter's princess obsession because it has an African-American heroine. The movie just arrived on DVD and Aaryn tells readers how Disney squanders the opportunity to break new ground in the princess genre.

House prices are falling and mortgage rates are rising. It makes for a dangerous mix for some San Diego homeowners. Joanne Faryon explains.

A new HIV test is available that offers results within a week of infection. Standard tests that look for antibodies in the blood take up to three months to detect the presence of the HIV virus.

In the throes of a vicious drug war, Mexico's border city of Juarez — with its endless wave of kidnappings and executions — has become one of the most violent places on earth. The city is shouldering unfathomable sorrow, and its mothers are the most public face of that suffering.

It has become frightening clear that we are not out of the economic woods, and another recession is not out of the question. So what does this mean for San Diego? And how might San Diego be affected by the debt ceiling bill?

The California State Senate is heating up the already boiling debate over whether troops should be withdrawn from Iraq. The Democratic Senate leader Don Perata stoked the fires with his push for a sta

San Diego -- on the road to recovery or a long road ahead? With debt ceiling taking the spotlight locally and nationally, we ask, how is San Diego's economy doing.

San Diego school board members approved a plan Tuesday to allow seven elementary schools to provide a kindergarten through eighth grade education. Most elementary schools stop at the fifth grade. KPBS

California cities were mandated by the state to have new water landscaping regulations in place by January 1. 2010. We discuss what these new regulations entail, what effect they will have on the state's water usage and which San Diego communities are in compliance.