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Rady Children’s Hospital strike begins
Nurses started picketing Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego on Monday, kicking off a two-day strike over wages that required the medical provider to bring in about 400 replacement workers to care...
View ArticleCity Council delays decision on whether to turn an empty warehouse into a...
The San Diego City Council has delayed a decision on whether to convert an empty warehouse into one of the nation’s largest homeless shelters, following a pair of critical reports from San Diego’s top...
View ArticleCrews make progress on brush fire near Bell Valley in East County
A slow-moving brush fire charred 12 acres in East County Tuesday and briefly forced the closure of state Route 94 between Bell Valley Road and Harris Ranch Road, a fire official said. The fire was...
View ArticleSan Diego’s troubled carrier USS Boxer faces another long stay in a repair yard
The San Diego-based assault ship USS Boxer, which has spent more time holed up for repairs in recent years than traveling the open seas, will be sidelined again when it returns from deployment, the...
View Article19-year-old man killed in Vista shooting ID’d
A 19-year-old man who died after he and three other people were shot over the weekend in Vista was identified Tuesday as a San Marcos resident. Antonio Junior Calderon Mendiola died after he and a...
View ArticleUC San Diego study finds both pros and cons to legalized online gambling
The legalization of online gambling increases state revenues but also leads to irresponsible betting, especially among lower-income gamblers, a report from UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management has...
View ArticlePolice identify 25-year-old La Mesa man who was fatally shot
A 25-year-old man who was found mortally wounded in a La Mesa street earlier this month has been identified by authorities as Essa Faraj. Police were called to High Street near Waite Drive shortly...
View ArticleUSS Tarawa, once a fixture in San Diego, sunk by missile in training exercise
The USS Tarawa — a venerable, decommissioned amphibious assault ship that was a fixture in San Diego for decades — was sunk by a missile as a part of war games off Hawaii on Friday, the Navy said. The...
View ArticleFeds award Oceanside $15 million for water projects
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has awarded Oceanside $15 million to further programs that reduce the city’s reliance on imported water and increase the use of recycled and brackish groundwater sources....
View Article3 arrested in shooting death of 26-year-old man in Oceanside
Oceanside police said they have arrested three men in connection with the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old man in an Oceanside apartment last month. Officers responded to the reported shooting around...
View ArticleCouncil members seek changes in warehouse shelter lease. What might that look...
The San Diego City Council sat down Monday afternoon to consider leasing an empty warehouse in the Middletown neighborhood so it could be transformed into one of the nation’s largest homeless shelters....
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From the Archives: Comic-Con beginnings
Comic-Con starts this evening with a preview party and then begins in-full Thursday and runs through Sunday. More than 100,000 people will attend, and the Gaslamp will be packed. The Con had to start...
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Postcards go out to San Diego County voters ahead of November election
With the November election a little over 100 days away, postcards are on their way to more than 1.9 million registered voters in San Diego County detailing their voting options. Election Day for the...
View ArticleObon Festival this weekend in Vista
The annual community Obon Festival, a Japanese cultural celebration, is from 2 to 8 p.m. July 27-28 at the Vista Buddhist Temple, 150 Cedar Road. The “gathering of joy and remembrance” includes Bon...
View ArticleOne fatally stabbed in fight near Palm City trolley station
A fight near the trolley station in the Palm City area of San Diego Tuesday night left one person dead from a stab wound, San Diego police said. The victim, who appeared to be a teen or young man, was...
View ArticleEvacuations ordered in fire ignited during thunderstorms north of Palomar...
Evacuations were ordered Wednesday afternoon for homes and businesses in the path of a growing brush fire north of Palomar Mountain near the San Diego-Riverside County line, authorities said....
View ArticleMan killed in La Mesa was stabbed, not shot, police say
La Mesa police said a 25-year-old man found mortally wounded on a La Mesa street on July 13 died from stab wounds, not a gunshot wound as originally thought. Police were called to High Street near...
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Someone San Diego Should Know: Augustus Holm
Since age 13, Augustus Holm has proven himself to be an extraordinary philanthropist and business entrepreneur with a contagious “can do” attitude. “At such a young age, people initially did not take...
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Delicate ballet unfolds in San Diego Bay as 2 aircraft carriers swap assets...
Two of the biggest brutes in the Navy — the aircraft carriers George Washington and Ronald Reagan — are wrapping up a rare and tricky exercise in San Diego Bay meant to maintain U.S. firepower in the...
View Article19 charged in maritime human smuggling operation in San Diego
Nineteen people have been charged in San Diego federal court on suspicion of operating what prosecutors called a lucrative human smuggling ring that brought undocumented immigrants from Mexico to San...
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