In our newsroom’s first year of publishing, the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists awarded Daylight with five first-place wins, and co-founder Kate Morrissey was honored as 2026 Journalist ...

The number of families struggling with food insecurity nearly tripled in last two years, survey finds.

At the worst-performing refineries, report finds operators are not tackling recurring and harmful leaks, leading to public health risk.

Local officials blame environmentalists for long delays, but politics, technology and markets are the culprits.

Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz is one of six people to die in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody less than three weeks into 2026.

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a revolution.

Some people decide not to participate in in-person visitation because they don't want to take off all their clothes in front of a guard.

After federal judges began pushing back on efforts to detain people at hearings, Immigration and Customs officials implemented a strategy that tracks immigrants and makes them feel like criminals.

Trump's campaign against immigrants is affecting their ability to work, hurting businesses and eroding workers’ rights.

A flurry of actions, from mass layoffs and ICE raids to union-busting and tariffs, are straining U.S. workers and fueling uncertainty.

A promise of $1,000 and a free plane ride home tempts many who've grown weary of being locked up in crowded detention centers.

Western Environmental Law Center attorney discusses New Mexico, the president's energy emergency and how we can emerge from the “ruins.”

Neighborhood groups monitor immigration enforcement amid rising fear and federal scrutiny.

Since his return, newsrooms have downplayed Trump’s decline, helping normalize a presidency defined by incoherence, paranoia, and cruelty.

The once-declining Rust Belt city of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been bouncing back, partly thanks to immigration. The Trump administration’s policies threaten that growth.

A warming climate — fueled in part by the state’s oil and gas production — has parched rivers and turned forests to tinder.

The Guatemalan man told officials that he had colon cancer when he first arrived at Otay Mesa Detention Center, according to his medical records.

A waste incinerator, a paper plant and a sewage treatment facility all jammed in a town of 35,000. “Our children literally cannot breathe.”

The state’s deep reliance on the program means proposed rollbacks would have an outsized impact.

Rodney Scott led the U.S. Border Patrol sector in San Diego when officials killed immigrant Anastasio Hernández Rojas.

Case calls for sweeping reforms to police use-of-force, could set precedent for reexamining high-profile deaths.