Toxic fumes in the house. It’s a potential nightmare faced by several hundred people in El Cajon whose mobile homes sit directly over a highly polluted stream of underground water. For one family, the worry has been especially acute.

If you own a house in a relatively new neighborhood, chances are you pay Mello-Roos taxes. Those are additional property taxes intended to pay for specific capital projects, like schools and roads.

Plans to develop San Diego’s waterfront have birthed an unlikely alliance determined to wake a once-powerful industry from a long sleep.

Every day, underground pipes pump natural gas to Mexico. Since 2010, the trade is up 300 percent. That’s causing concern for the nation’s dependence on the U.S. in the Trump administration.

Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have funded museum upgrades and teacher seminars in San Diego County for years. The New York Times reported that an internal memo from President Trump’s budget office intended to cut funding to several

Hundreds of thousands of community college students are placed in remedial classes every year, and few get past them, especially black and Latino students.

This episode of the podcast is about best intentions and shortcuts, struggles and triumphs, journalism and empathy. It’s about Gompers Preparatory Academy.

It’s been a long goodbye for San Diego Hospice, an institution that helped people die with dignity and without pain.

Alex and Vicki Masters are devoted parents. Their 8-year-old son Vincent has his own area of the living room for his Lego bricks, and a baby gate keeps his 8-month-old brother, Gabriel, away from the small choking hazards.