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A virus that is killing fish has moved across the Great Lakes and into a lake in Wisconsin. Despite warnings, humans may have spread the disease by moving contaminated fish, bait or boat water. Regulators are trying to quell the spread of the virus.

A massive development project on San Diego’s prime bay front is coming under increased scrutiny. Opponents of the Navy Broadway project gathered today to raise objections to the proposed high rises b

Federal Reserve policymakers raise a key short-term interest rate by one quarter of a percentage point, putting the Fed Funds rate at 1.5 percent. In a statement, the Fed said the economy seems "poised to resume a stronger pace of expansion" despite a recent slowdown in growth and job creation. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

Cal State San Marcos is admitting large numbers of Latino students, but campus administrators say the challenge is keeping them there. KPBS reporter Ana Tintocalis has more.

Searchers say they have found no sign of Steve Fossett after his single-engine plane disappeared in the rugged mountains and sagebrush-filled desert of western Nevada.

A pending ballot measure in California would funnel $3 billion over 10 years into embryonic stem cell research. President Bush restricted federal funding for such research three years ago. The California bond measure is largely supported by scientists and affected families; its detractors oppose it on mostly religious or fiscal grounds. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports.

Incompetence but no corruption. That's the verdict of San Diego city hall's investigation into how its own officials allowed Sunroad Enterprises to construct a too-tall building in the Montgomery Fiel

Rhiannon O'Donnabhain, a transgender woman, is suing the IRS for the right to claim her sex-change operation as a medical deduction on her income taxes. But the IRS says the surgery was essentially cosmetic and not allowed under tax law.

San Diego County is home to the state's first all-solar-powered apartment community. KPBS Reporter Ed Joyce tells us the development was designed to be totally "green" from the inside out.

Three years ago, Congress passed a tax credit worth a dollar for every gallon of biodiesel blended in the United States. The problem: Any blend can qualify, and the producers don't have to be American. That has both U.S. and European producers crying foul.