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A coalition of border-area businesses and community groups says it cannot back the San Ysidro Port of Entry remodel plan until the US government addresses issues like the impact of screening cars headed into Mexico. As KPBS reporter Amy Isackson explains its the last day (monday) to comment on the government's environmental impact report on the remodel.

A loophole in the beach alcohol ban has led to a phenomenon called floatopia -- a floating booze party in San Diego's Mission Bay. A city council committee is trying to put an end to the party. We discuss the details.

Congressional Democrats on Monday singled out presidential adviser Karl Rove for questioning about the firing of San Diego's U.S. Attorney Carol Lam and seven other federal prosecutors.

A former State Department lawyer tells NPR he believes the Bush administration sought to collect and destroyed all copies of a 2005 memo he wrote arguing against harsh interrogation techniques.

Tijuana Municipal Police officials say federal authorities have finished examining local agents’ guns. But Municipal officials say there’s still no word on when they’ll get their weapons back. In t

It doesn't seem to matter whether you're a Republican or a Democrat -- if you're a political incumbent and your place of business is Washington, D.C., your name is mud. One incumbent in serious trouble is Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln, who is heading into a runoff Tuesday against Lt. Gov. Bill Halter to decide the Democratic nomination.

Countless organizations devote money and research to trying to fix the public school system in the United States and kids keep falling farther behind. Why do you think people disengage from talking about education? The United Way of San Diego is using the momentum of a new film, "Waiting for Superman," to start a local conversation about the troubles in our schools and what we can do to fix them. We'll talk about the difficulties faced by students and teachers in San Diego County and find out what the United Way is doing to address the future of education here.

Last week, the 4th District Court of Appeals upheld as constitutional the voter-approved City of San Diego ballot measure to transfer land under the Mt. Soledad Cross to the federal government. Also

About 400,000 Americans have multiple sclerosis, and up until now, the only drugs offered to them to slow the course of the disease had to be injected or dripped into a vein. But soon, it seems, they will have an alternative to this painful regimen: drugs that can be taken by mouth.

A high profile collector in Chicago named Barry MacLean