San Diego aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson making good time en route to...
The San Diego-based aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson appears to be making good time traveling from the Indo-Pacific to the Middle East. The U.S. Naval Institute says the flat-top sailed through the...
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Nearly 12,000 ‘Hands Off!’ protesters jam downtown San Diego, marching...
Thousands of opponents of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk clogged the streets of downtown San Diego on Saturday, marching, chanting and waving signs protesting the administration’s actions on a...
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As election day nears, supervisor hopefuls push to stand out amid a crowded...
In the final stretch before polls close in the District 1 county supervisor special election on Tuesday, candidates have focused their efforts on the not-so-simple act of getting residents to vote....
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Backlash against San Diego’s proposed parking overhaul forces city to look...
A sweeping proposal to revamp many San Diego parking rules — including plans to end free street parking on Sundays and install meters in Balboa Park — is facing backlash from residents, merchant groups...
View ArticleAfter 9th Circuit win, San Diego County seeks to withhold more sheriff’s records
Almost as soon as a federal appeals court reversed a lower court’s ruling that certain internal sheriff’s records must be made available to the public, lawyers for the County of San Diego began...
View ArticleThe election is 19 months away, but these two San Diego races are already...
The 2026 races for two open San Diego City Council seats are both shaping up to be fierce contests with several quality candidates — but both races are still considered wide open with plenty of time...
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As the U.S.-Mexico land border tightens, focus turns to dangerous sea crossings
On March 30, maritime law enforcement officials patrolling the ocean southwest of San Diego spotted and approached a suspicious vessel whose occupants were waving white flags to signal distress. The...
View ArticleA tenth of East County fires may have involved homeless encampments, data show
First responders in East County estimate that 185 fires in recent years involved homeless encampments, amounting to more than a tenth of all blazes throughout three neighboring cities. Last year there...
View ArticleUC San Diego professor shares broader history of Black Americans along the...
A question posed by another researcher really struck Caroline Collins in her work on the way the public thinks about and remembers the American West: “Where else can blackness imagine itself besides...
View ArticleDeputies investigate suspicious death in San Marcos apartment
Homicide detectives are investigating after a man in his 20s was found dead in an apartment in San Marcos. The incident is being investigated by the San Diego County Sheriff’s homicide unit because...
View ArticleFamily condemns San Diego police’s shooting of their younger brother
Family members said their younger brother was shot and killed by San Diego police on Friday, condemning his killing as unjust and disputing authorities’ assertion that he was armed. Police shot the...
View ArticlePedestrian killed in Carmel Valley vehicle collision
A pedestrian died Sunday night after being struck by a vehicle in a Carmel Valley neighborhood, police said. The crash, which involved an sport utility vehicle, was reported at 8:09 p.m. on Brookburn...
View ArticleAt least two stabbed in robbery series in Rolando and College Area
San Diego police are investigating a series of strong-arm robberies in the Rolando and College Area neighborhoods Sunday night that left two people hospitalized with stab wounds, a police spokesperson...
View ArticleEncinitas starts process to grant Self-Realization Fellowship more...
Encinitas may lift a decades-old, planning document requirement so that it will be easier for the Self-Realization Fellowship Temple to make renovations to its coastal properties. The City Council...
View Article‘Not going to sit idle’: San Diego business leaders in D.C. as tariffs hit
San Diego and Baja California business leaders and elected officials are on a lobbying mission in Washington, D.C., this week as tariffs ripple through the cross-border economy. A coalition of more...
View ArticleSan Diego search and rescue crew pulls missing woman from Poway storm drain
A search and rescue team extricated a missing woman from a storm drain near the San Diego-Poway border Monday after a hunt for her led police detectives to the out-of-the-way spot, fire officials said....
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Life of service: Former council member, Navy captain and transit leader Harry...
Harry Mathis never shied from a challenge, hard work or what might have seemed impossible. From an early age, Mathis took the reins of whatever he was up to — and rode that responsibility to become a...
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Rock climber rescued after fall at Mission Trails park
A 65-year-old man was injured after falling roughly 45 feet while scaling rocks at a popular climbing site in Mission Trails Regional Park, according to officials and a witness. The incident happened...
View ArticleAt least one dead in crash on I-805 in National City
At least one person was killed in a fiery crash on Interstate 805 in Chula Vista Sunday night. The crash was reported around 10:35 p.m. on the northbound freeway at the connector to eastbound state...
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San Diego County residents who ran toward danger are honored for their courage
Jenna Brians knew she was driving toward a violent man. She knew the danger her estranged husband posed, but she got into her car anyway. In that moment, she said, the instinctual fear of being hurt or...
View ArticleCoast Guard intercepts pair of boats carrying migrants off San Diego coast
The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted a pair of boats last weekend off the coast of San Diego, and more than 30 Mexican nationals aboard were detained, the agency said. The first vessel, a suspected...
View ArticlePreviously censured San Diego judge, now retired, admonished by state...
For the second time in less than 18 months, California’s Commission on Judicial Performance has publicly disciplined former San Diego Superior Court Judge Howard Shore, this time for making “in-court...
View ArticleIn National City, City Hall is in turmoil over allegations against the...
Josie Flores-Clark is no stranger to controversy in National City governance. Nearly 20 years ago, Flores-Clark came under fire when she was allowed to work as Mayor Ron Morrison’s assistant while also...
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DOGE cuts shut down San Diego County’s wastewater testing system
A coalition of top scientists loaded its last set of wastewater samples for analysis Sunday after receiving the final word from San Diego County late last week that the work should cease due to a...
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San Diego Zoo Safari Park’s executive director heading to Houston Zoo
Lisa Peterson, who has led San Diego Zoo Safari Park since 2017, is leaving to take the president/CEO job at the Houston Zoo in June. Peterson has served as a senior vice president and executive...
View ArticleMexico demands thorough investigation into San Diego police shooting of teen
Mexican authorities have demanded a thorough investigation into a San Diego police shooting that killed a 19-year-old man Friday. Kevin García of Oaxaca, Mexico, who was identified by his family, was...
View ArticlePolice seeking assailant after man stabbed to death in El Cajon
A man was stabbed to death in El Cajon early Tuesday, and police are searching for the suspected assailant. Multiple people called 911 just after 2:40 a.m. to report a stabbing on West Cypress Avenue...
View ArticleSolana Beach dog groomer sentenced in attempted sex assault
A Solana Beach dog groomer who pleaded guilty to attempting to sexually assault a 75-year-old woman inside her home near Torrey Highlands was sentenced Monday to five years in state prison. Tony Choi,...
View ArticleSupervisors OK no-bid contract to help sheriff slash DNA test backlog in...
With hundreds of sexual assault cases unsolved in San Diego County, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday gave Sheriff Kelly Martinez approval to seek a sole-source contract with a company that could...
View ArticleMan perched atop freeway bridge for 19 hours snarls traffic
A man who snarled traffic for miles around Mission Bay off and on for about 19 hours by perching on the edge of an Interstate 5 overpass — possibly as a publicity-seeking stunt — was taken into custody...
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Missing woman rescued from Poway storm drain dies
A missing 59-year-old woman who was rescued Monday from deep inside a storm drain system in Poway days after she had gone missing has died, authorities said Tuesday. After coming to believe that Yafang...
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McCann and Aguirre hold leads in special election for South County...
Chula Vista Mayor John McCann and Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre appear headed to a July runoff election in the race for District 1 county supervisor, based on early election returns after the...
View ArticleMan sentenced to probation for fire at abandoned InCahoots building
A man who sparked a fire that burned down the abandoned InCahoots bar in Mission Valley on Christmas Day was sentenced Tuesday to two years of formal probation. The 47-year-old was arrested about a...
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Proposal to expand county’s immigrant legal services program fails
A proposal in front of the county Board of Supervisors to expand a local program that provides legal services to immigrants failed Tuesday. The motion fell short of the required three votes, with...
View ArticleCounty supervisors vote in favor of mental health care investments
Faced with the increasing possibility of significant Medicaid cuts, San Diego County supervisors did not back away from further mental health care investments Tuesday, approving requests for additional...
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Across San Diego, students, parents and educators raise alarm over funding...
Dozens of arms shot toward the midday sun Tuesday at UC San Diego when a protest organizer asked roughly 200 students if they work in laboratories whose research funding has been cut by the Trump...
View ArticleFirst responders drill today with simulated plane crash in Mission Bay
A first responder training exercise involving a simulated airplane crash is set to take place in Mission Bay Wednesday morning, officials said. The exercise will involve personnel from the San Diego...
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San Diego cuts trash pickup price after residents balk. Here’s what it could...
San Diego officials are reducing by about 10% a proposed new trash fee for single-family homes that the City Council is scheduled to debate on Monday. The revised proposal announced Wednesday suggests...
View Article1-year-old girl died after being found unresponsive in Rancho San Diego daycare
Sheriff’s detectives are investigating the death of a 1-year-old girl who was found unresponsive in a licensed daycare center in Rancho San Diego on Tuesday. Deputies and paramedics responded to a call...
View Article5 victims killed in recent San Diego County crashes identified
Authorities have identified five people killed in recent San Diego County traffic crashes. The latest took place late Sunday afternoon, when 70-year-old Mark Maisel of San Diego was struck by a vehicle...
View ArticleCounty supervisors still split on whether to warn people they could lose...
For the second time in as many months, San Diego County supervisors have declined to approve a plan to warn residents that their federal benefits may be eliminated by the Trump administration. The...
View ArticleSuspected drunken driver arrested after deadly crash in Chula Vista
Investigators arrested a 22-year-old woman who was allegedly drunk when she crashed the Tesla she was driving into a guardrail, killing her passenger, late Sunday evening in Chula Vista, California...
View ArticleEx-Qualcomm vice president convicted in $180 million fraud scheme
A former Qualcomm vice president was convicted by a San Diego federal jury Tuesday of wire fraud and money laundering in connection with a scheme worth $180 million, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said....
View ArticleMan, 23, fatally stabbed during break-in at Grant Hill home identified
A 23-year-old man who was fatally stabbed after he allegedly threatened to attack his girlfriend and kicked in the front door of a Grant Hill home was identified Wednesday. Officers first responded to...
View ArticleEl Cajon care facilities to face $565 fee for every 911 lift-assist call
Care facilities in El Cajon that call 911 to get assistance lifting a client who has fallen, but is not injured, will face a $565 fee under a new rule the City Council is pursuing. The fee will not...
View ArticleCoastal Commission approves $1.8 million grant for Oceanside sand project
The California Coastal Commission approved a more than $1.8 million grant Wednesday to cover costs of baseline studies needed for Oceanside’s Re:Beach sand replenishment project. Details are still in...
View Article‘We have no idea what’s coming’: Amid federal cuts, effort to push back...
An effort to delay approval of San Diego County’s 2025-26 budget failed at the Board of Supervisors — meaning county leaders will need to devise a spending plan by June 30 amid uncertainty over how the...
View ArticlePolice release footage of fatal shooting by SWAT snipers in Scripps Ranch
San Diego police released footage Wednesday of the fatal shooting of a man by police snipers in Scripps Ranch. Erick Kulokow, 59, was shot and killed on March 25 on Angelique Street after police...
View ArticleCommander of Coast Guard base in San Diego permanently relieved of duties
The commander of the U.S. Coast Guard’s large base in San Diego has been permanently relieved of his duties six months after being suspended for unspecified reasons. Capt. James Spitler was relieved...
View ArticleSomeone San Diego Should Know: Mark Palm
It was 1997 and Mark Palm, then 22, was on a first date with Kirsten. “I told her about my plan to live in New Guinea and help people,” he said. “I told her, ‘If you’re up for that, we can date. If...
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