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The 23rd annual San Diego Festival of Beer taps more than 45 breweries and a couple of great local bands to help raise money for the fight against cancer.

Kalend Terrell, aka TheSoulutionKT, pulls from a tradition where what’s being said is equally as important as how it’s delivered. Listen to his new singles here.

Such a quintessentially American role, some said, should have gone to an African American actress. Erivo, the daughter of Nigerian immigrants to England, was born in London and currently lives in New York.

British actress Cynthia Erivo is relatively small in stature. In person, she is earnest and genial. In performance, the 32-year-old can appear achingly vulnerable. And if you’re not paying attention, she will bowl you over. Now, after glimpses of her on-screen power last year in Drew Goddard’s “Bad Times at the El Royale” and Steve McQueen’s “Widows,” Erivo gives her...

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors wants to secure access to a private road in the rural town of Crest so residents can have a third evacuation route in the event of an emergency.

As our county continues to heat up a new report is sounding the alarm about wildfire danger.

A report says that hundreds of communities including some here in San Diego have a higher risk of a wildfire than Paradise, California. NBC 7’s Danny Freeman has the details.

Tropical Depression Barry dumped rain as it slowly swept inland through Gulf Coast states Sunday, sparing New Orleans from a direct hit but stoking fears elsewhere of flooding, tornadoes, and prolonged power outages. Though the system was downgraded to a tropical depression Sunday afternoon and its winds were steadily weakening since it made landfall Saturday in Louisiana, Barry’s rain bands...

A fight is emerging over whether a son of Aretha Franklin could be put in charge of the late singer’s estate after a 2014 handwritten will was found under cushions in her suburban Detroit home. Attorneys for the estate said in a court filing Monday that “there is no basis to support the assumption” that Kecalf Franklin has the “ability,...

Walmart is going to begin delivering groceries inside shoppers’ homes. Right to their kitchen refrigerators. Starting this fall, nearly 1 million people across three cities — Kansas City, Missouri, Pittsburgh and Vero Beach, Florida — will have access to Walmart’s new in-home delivery option, the retailer announced Friday at its annual shareholders meeting in Bentonville, Arkansas. The company said it...

A Valencia Park mother wants the local elementary school principal to step down after allowing a San Diego Unified School District police officer to question two boys without contacting their families first.

Parents tell NBC 7’s Joe Little they are upset that school administrators called police to question their children about fake money they were playing with at school.

A strong storm system barreling through the South on Friday killed an 8-year-old girl in Florida and threatened to bring tornadoes to large parts of the Carolinas and southern Virginia.

Aretha Franklin is still getting R-E-S-P-E-C-T after death: The Queen of Soul received the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation honor Monday, becoming the first individual woman to earn a special citation prize since the honor was first awarded in 1930. The Pulitzer board said the award was given to Franklin for “her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more...

Powerful storms swept across the South on Sunday after unleashing suspected tornadoes and flooding that killed at least eight people, injured dozens and flattened much of a Texas town. Three children were among the dead. Nearly 90,000 customers were without electricity in Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Georgia as of midday Sunday, according to www.poweroutage.us as the severe weather left...

U.S. clocks will “spring forward” again on March 10 to make room for an extra hour of sunlight in the evenings as winter fades away. That also means losing out an hour’s sleep Saturday night. Daylight saving time officially starts at 2 a.m. Sunday, when clocks are pushed forward one hour to 3 a.m. When you go to bed on...

They are fighting, yes, but the fight crackles with the enticing electricity that only Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn could deliver. He is storming out the door. She is throwing his golf clubs after him. The music is jaunty. He is charmingly irritated. Then he . he . he strides up to her, throws a fake punch in the air...

Records obtained by The Associated Press highlight some of the problems that plague government facilities for immigrant youth at a time when President Donald Trump’s administration has been making moves in recent weeks that could send even more migrant children into detention. About 14,000 immigrant children are currently detained in more than 100 facilities nationally, with about 5,900 in Texas....

The migrants carried hand-painted American and Honduran flags and chanted: “We are not criminals! We are international workers!”

America’s recycling industry is in the dumps. A crash in the global market for recyclables is forcing communities to make hard choices about whether they can afford to keep recycling or should simply send all those bottles, cans and plastic containers to the landfill. Mountains of paper have piled up at sorting centers, worthless. Cities and towns that once made...