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The U.S. economy unexpectedly shed another 85,000 jobs in December, the Labor Department reported Friday, but the unemployment rate managed to hold steady at 10 percent, and most analysts still expect a gradual improvement in coming months.

Federal authorities arrested 66 people in California and other states Wednesday in connection with a Mexican drug smuggling cartel. Law enforcement authorities say the alleged cartel leader remains at large. KPBS Reporter Amy Isackson has the story.

The economy shed 85,000 jobs in December, but the unemployment rate held unchanged at 10 percent, the Labor Department said Friday. Despite the unexpected drop, many economists still predict a gradual improvement in the economy over the coming months.

When they plugged California's $42 billion budget hole in February, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders said everyone had to give up something to repair the state's finances.

President Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act is up for renewal. The federal program wants to raise student achievement across the country. Many San Diego teachers and principals say the law needs to be

A federal judge has set a spring date for a preliminary injunction hearing on the controversial Escondido illegal-immigrant housing ordinance. U.S. District Judge John Houston set a March 8th hearing

What's the best way to improve the nation's struggling public school system? We speak to education historian Diane Ravitch about her book "The Death and Life of the Great American School System." Find out why the former advocate for No Child Left Behind is now opposed to using a "top-down" approach to reform struggling schools.

President Obama will mark his 100th day in office Wednesday with a prime-time news conference updating Americans on his administration's progress on the economy, health care and Iraq.

Federal immigration officials say some of the people who were being held in an overcrowded immigration detention facility in Otay Mesa are now in an Arizona County jail. Some immigration attorneys are

More than 250 mayors convened this week for the winter meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, with home foreclosures and the faltering economy top issues on their agenda. Trenton, N.J., Mayor Douglas H. Palmer, the president of the conference, discusses action that must be taken by cities to combat these economic woes.