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NPR's Richard Gonzales reports from San Francisco on what could be a new era for the city's two newspapers. The Chronicle and The Examiner are long time rivals, with one paper focused on the region and the other on the city. Now, after a bitter anti-trust case, the two newspapers are merging under new ownership.

British troops exchange artillery fire with Iraqi militia forces near the southern city of Basra, amid reports of a possible uprising against the Iraqi government in the country's second-largest city. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports that while security remains an issue in the southern port city of Basra in Iraq, the real issue for the city's million residents is water. A month after the war in Iraq began, there still is no running water in Basra and what fresh water there is is being trucked in to be distributed, by the bucket, by British Marines.

Some Iraqis are trying to find their own place in a new government, whether the United States approves or not. In the city of Kut southeast of Baghdad, a local tribal leader has occupied city hall in defiance of U-S Marines. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

When he was governor of California, Jerry Brown was derided for his liberal, Zen-friendly policies. Now that he's the mayor of Oakland, Brown is a surprise booster of the city's charter military school -- an institution he says could provide the city's youth with much-needed discipline. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports for Morning Edition. (5:05

Denver is debating how it wants to be portrayed as thousands of journalists and delegates arrive for the Democratic National Convention. But Denverites are split over whether to play up the city's folksy western reputation or its emergence as a cultured city.

Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has entered into a plea deal on obstruction charges in connection with a city hall sex scandal. He will step down as mayor, serve 120 days in jail and pay the city of Detroit one million dollars in damages.

San Francisco has a goal of providing early education and care for all of the city's children.

WorldPride, the international celebration of LGBTQ+ identity held biennially in a different city, is in Washington, DC this year.

Bloomington Mayor Mboka Mwilambwe will interview 10 candidates who filed to fill a city council vacancy. That's how many Ward 6 residents who applied for the city ahead of the deadline.