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San Diego Pride attendees march during the parade, July 2017.

San Diego Pride returns 'full scale' after pandemic pause

San Diego Pride executive director Fernando Lopez Jr. said this weekend's upcoming festival is going to be a massive, joyful event.

An artisanal miner carries a sack of ore at the Shabara artisanal mine near Kolwezi, DRC, on Oct. 12, 2022.

How 'modern-day slavery' in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy

Phone and electric car batteries are made with cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt Red author Siddharth Kara describes the conditions for workers as a "horror show."

Disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh faced hours of cross-examination by prosecutor Creighton Waters during his murder trial in the 2021 deaths of his wife and son.

On the stand, Alex Murdaugh denies the murders as prosecutors press him on his lies

For hours on Friday, the lead prosecutor interrogated the disgraced South Carolina attorney over his lies about stealing money and his whereabouts the night his wife and son were killed in June 2021.

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors meets on February 9, 2022.

Big change approved in fees paid by developers of housing and businesses in San Diego County

The Board of Supervisors voted to change the way developers are taxed with the aim of reducing carbon emissions.

The sign for the San Diego Workforce Partnership offices is seen here, Dec. 27, 2022.

Employees allege racism, sexism, abuse of taxpayer dollars at San Diego Workforce Partnership

A dozen employees at the quasi-governmental agency sent a letter to San Diego City Council members and a county supervisor accusing CEO Peter Callstrom of racist and sexist employment practices and the use of public funds to buy silence from his internal critics.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, pictured in San Francisco in October, commuted the sentences of all 17 people on death row on her way out of office.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown explains why she commuted all of her state's death sentences

In her final weeks in office, Brown commuted the sentences of all 17 people on death row in the state. Capital punishment is legal in Oregon, though its last execution was in 1997.

New research tackles the central question about "buy now, pay later": Does it encourage people to overspend?

In a year marked by inflation, 'buy now, pay later' is the hottest holiday trend

People are paying for blenders, shirts and even groceries in installments. New research suggests this encourages people to overspend.

Cars drive on both sides of the road past the Third Avenue Village Chula Vista sign in the center divider, Jan. 24, 2022.

Chula Vista business owners seek safety, security along Third Avenue

Some businesses owners along Chula Vista’s Third Avenue say they are seeing more drunken behavior and increased crime since the pandemic.

Heavy haul trucker Eric Jammer stands in front of his truck.

The astronomical price of diesel is making everything more expensive

America runs on diesel. It keeps freight moving, factories humming and farmers planting. But a surge in diesel prices is making everything more expensive.

A view of downtown Oxford, N.C., near Main Street.

Everyday people were civil rights heroes, too. This is the story of one town's fight

In 1970, the murder of a Black man in Oxford, N.C., led ordinary people to take extraordinary action. In a country that still struggles with race, stories like theirs show that the past is not dead.

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