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Maribel Estrada stands at the counter of her City Heights restaurant El ToroGrill Taqueria, Feb. 25, 2021.

San Diego looks at positive impact of small business and nonprofit pandemic grants

The city of San Diego’s nonprofit and small business relief fund has distributed $12 million.

Ride-share drivers lining up at the San Diego International Airport to pick up passengers, June 6, 2022.

Ride-share drivers struggling with record-high gas prices

Some drivers have quit the business altogether while others are working longer hours to make ends meet.

Politburo Standing Committee member Li Qiang attends a session of China's National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, March 7, 2023.

Xi Jinping's show: Who's who in China's new government

China has put the finishing touches on a sweeping leadership reshuffle that has been years in the making and puts trusted allies of leader Xi Jinping in key spots throughout the administration.

House Democrats release Trump's tax returns

The Democratic-controlled Ways and Means Committee has released former President Trump's tax returns from his time in office, ending a multi-year legal battle for the information.

A gas stove in Temecula, Calif. Jan. 4, 2023.

California Public Utilities Commission explores natural gas price spike, but is short on solutions

California utility regulators got a detailed look on Tuesday at what caused the natural gas price spike.

Viridiana Rubio, the owner of Huapangos Mexican Cuisine serves a fresh bowl of posole and fresh chips to a table hungry customers.

San Diego businesses struggle to keep up with gas prices and inflation

Inflation is causing struggles for local businesses like Huapangos Mexican Cuisine in Hillcrest.

Patricia Cole (left) strove to make every NPR story she touched better, and she embraced the silliness that sometimes breaks out in a newsroom. She's seen here with her friend Maquita Peters.

Former NPR copy editor Patricia Cole, known for her quick wit and editing eye, dies

She worked on feature stories and breaking news with equal aplomb. Journalism is the only thing she ever wanted to do, her brother told NPR.

Even before the wave of labor organizing took off at Starbucks, independently owned coffeehouses in cities across the U.S. were becoming hot spots for union drives.

One unionized. The other did not. How 2 Milwaukee cafés were changed by union drives

A barista-led labor movement has dealt challenges to coffee shop owners, and not just Howard Schultz. In Milwaukee, two independently owned cafés faced union drives with two very different outcomes.

Jerry Sanders, San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce president and CEO, addresses the congressional luncheon attendees at the Omni Hotel in San Diego, CA on August 1, 2022.

Local Chamber of Commerce brings Congress to San Diego

The San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce hosted its annual Congressional Luncheon.

Kiora Hansen and Della Currie protest against racism by Antioch police officers at a rally in front of the police department on Tuesday.

These California police officers have created a scandal. They sent racist texts

For years Black and brown people have complained about racism, corruption and abuse by the Antioch, Calif., police. Now a racist text message scandal implicates almost half of the department.

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