The San Diego Union-Tribune

U.S. Congress has approved land compensation for Native American tribe that lost half its reservation to flooding.

San Diego's new general plan creates a "City of Villages", and increases housing density around designated urban centers.

L.A. School Board says environmental problems in downtown L.A. may prevent new schools from being in the area and "require some existing schools to shut down."

In the last five years, smoggy Southern California has made significant gains in fighting air pollution.

City will donate land and money for the proposed new Guggenheim museum in lower Manhattan expected to cost $678 million and to be designed by Frank O. Gehry.

Department of the Interior released a plan which addresses the use of water from the Trinity River,a small river in northern California that supplies as much as a seventhof the Central Valley Project's water.

San Francisco State University faces a housing crisis as students struggle to find a place to live.

The California Coastal Commission rejected a proposal to allow developers to choose from a range of affordable housing incentives.

California's Coastal Commission and federal wildlife agencies are trying to avoid a turf battle over enforcing the federal Endangered Species Act and the California Coastal Act.

A company seeking to build a nuclear waste dump in the Mojave Desert has been defeated a second time in a federal appeals court.

NAACP is demanding an apology and reparations from Palm Springs for destroying homes in a "city-engineered holocaust."

President Clinton created a new national monument in northern Arizona and expanded a national monument in Idaho.

To meet the demand for electricity, natural gas producers are tapping in to the Rockies with economic and environmental repercussions.

President of Save our Forest and Ranchlands, Duncan McFetridge criticizes San Diegosupervisors and elected officials for their "empty [smart growth]rhetoric" in this Union Tribune opinion editorial.

The Everglades restoration bill enters political waters.

San Diego County Board of Supervisors member Greg Cox urgescommunity members to take action against local water pollution in thisUnion-Tribune opinion piece.

440-square-miles of Southern California will to become the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument.

University of California researchers say vampires are draining 10 percent of electricity in homes.

Known for its muscle men and rollerbladers in bikinis, Venice may be Southern California's most distinctive neighborhood but new wealth and rising real estate prices is threatening L.A. beachfront Bohemia.

Southern California must reduce reliance on Colorado River water even as its population increases, so plans to build water-ski projects southeast of Palm Springs is raising eybrows.